...Abstract The impact of internet communication on adolescent social development is of considerable importance to health professionals, parents, and teachers. Online social networking and instant message applications, such as those found on Facebook, are very popular amongst an era of high-tech youth (Campbell 2011). These utilities facilitate communication for teenagers. Although these methods provide many different ways to communicate with each other, they also have real repercussions that spark questions about the social “improvement’s” validity. Acceptable social interaction is now popularly reflected online as a direct result of growing internet access, especially in the adolescent youth. Online Social Networks are regularly revamping the nature of relationships between peers. The internet has begun to take on a role of, not only an information tool, but as a place where teenage adolescents can offer and receive support. Likewise the internet can also be a completely anonymous place where someone could never know whom someone is having a conversation with. Keywords: Adolescent social development, online social networking, social interaction With the acceptance and use of any technology, there is an array of affairs that affect how social networking sites are used on a distinct adolescent level, as well as group tendencies that come into play. Adolescent’s collective, susceptible, and impetuous demeanor, associated with the element of the internet composes a generous strain...
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...are and their potential implications to our national security in regard to the leaked Afghan War Diary and Iraq War Logs. WikiLeaks is an open website that reveals classified documents to the general public. Voice of America stated that “WikiLeaks releases 400,000 classified US Military files (Pessin, 2010). WikiLeaks is a serious threat to national security. WikiLeaks is a threat for three reasons: reveals the identities of operatives, defaces the name of the USA to foreign countries, and threatens the safety of the USA. A danger of WikiLeaks is it reveals the identities of operatives both foreign and domestic. WikiLeaks allows the names of many allies and operative missions to be posted on a public website. This type of exposure endangers many oversea operatives’ identities and positions. WikiLeaks has openly admitted to putting the names of many operatives on their site as means to “allow an open view of the government”. The open view is endangering many more lives than it is saving. The public website allows many terror groups, as well as different foreign governments’ access to the private documents of our national government. This...
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...Task 1 - Produce a questionnaire and interview twenty people (16 -19 Age Group Only). Conduct primary and secondary research for a selected product/service making use of identifiable sampling techniques. A sample is a piece of a whole; you cannot research the whole market, so you pick a sample. An example of a non-profitable sample could be dimensional sampling this is an extension to quota sampling. The researcher takes into account several characteristics e.g. gender, age, income, residence and education. An example of a profitable sample could be systematic random sampling. With the systematic random sample, there is an equal chance (probability) of selecting each unit (every nth person) from within the population when creating the sample. For my research I've chosen to use a non-profitable sampling methods simply because I am targeting young people on how music influences them. So I have specific age groups (16-19), which are allowed to answer the questionnaire in order to make my research more reliable. With my questions I've used four different methods in order to make my questionnaires more do able and reliable. I used opened questionnaires, which allows my samples to elaborate on their answers. I've also used closed question such as 'do you listen to music?’ as yes or no question are easy to tally up. I've used scaled questions in order to easily tally up and give general quantitative data and finally I have also used dichotomous which is the use fixed-alternative questions...
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...Google Misses the Mark There were many areas where Google may have missed the mark in the initial layout and design after its acquisition of You Tube. The first major mark Google missed was the initial design of the video service. Google initially designed the service where users were able to search video content. Google wanted to make an easy search function so that its users could easily search television shows and also find when and where to watch them. The search function was in no way comparable to You Tube. You Tube’s design was more simplistic and searching was much easier. Google’s video service overall missed the mark in the small details as well. The Google video service did not incorporate the small details that users liked such as the number of views. This information was only available to the uploader and not the viewer. Google’s service allowed the user to search captions from a video, but the search would produce only related information such as broadcasting dates and not the actual video. Once Google began allowing user contributed content, it required special version of Video LAN to view the videos, making it inaccessbile to the average viewer. Google also offered a new flash technology which made it a lot quicker to upload a video, but viewing the video took considerably longer. Youtube was a smaller company and there was no real threat or fear of lawsuits for copyright infringement. With Google, their pockets seemed endless and were a prime target for...
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...Labeled as the Great War, World War I was the first War in which all of the major Powers of Europe took part in. This conflict led to the destruction of two of Europe's oldest Empires, namely Russia and Austria-Hungary and brought about terrible hardships to countries which in turn led to the rise of fascism and socialism. This historic event in human history started on the 28th of July, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia as a result of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne. Unlike the Great Powers, specifically France, Russia and Germany who joined World War I as a result of the alliances they had in place, what lured Bulgaria and Italy to take up arms was the promise of new territories if victorious. Unfortunately this greed would lead to both nations suffering as a result of their participation in War. Italy, although victorious in the end, had to endure economic hardships and Bulgaria ended up with even less territory compared to when they joined the War. Bulgaria officially entered World War I on the 14th of October, 1915 by declaring war on Serbia, thereby joining the fight on the Central Power's side. Although Bulgaria and Serbia - once members of the Balkan League, fought side by side during the first Balkan War, which resulted in the end of Ottoman Rule in Europe, Bulgarians were dissatisfied about how the former Ottoman Territories, the most coveted one being Macedonia, were divided. This led to a...
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...technology. Computing services ranging from data storage and processing to software, such as email handling, are now available instantly, commitment-free and on-demand. Since we are in a time of belt-tightening, this new economic model for computing has found fertile ground and is seeing massive global investment. According to IDC’s analysis, the worldwide forecast for cloud services in 2009 will be in the order of $17.4bn1. The estimation for 2013 amounts to $44.2bn, with the European market ranging from €971m in 2008 to €6,005m in 2013 2. The key conclusion of ENISA’s 2009 paper on Cloud Computing: benefits, risks and recommendations for information security3 is that the cloud’s economies of scale and flexibility are both a friend and a foe from a security point of view. The massive concentrations of resources and data present a more attractive target to attackers, but cloud-based defences can be more robust, scalable and cost-effective. ENISA’s paper allows an informed assessment of the security risks and benefits of using cloud computing - providing security guidance for potential and existing users of cloud computing. The new economic model has also driven technical change in terms of: Scale: commoditisation and the drive towards economic efficiency have led to massive concentrations of the hardware resources required to provide services. This encourages economies of scale - for all the kinds of resources required to provide computing services. Architecture: optimal resource...
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...Online Social Networks and Adolescents Social networking has become more popular with adolescents and young adults today. Facebook is one of the many social network high school students have. Parent and teachers have concerns about social networking effects on adolescent social development. Everyone is using online social networking sites. Today, more and more adolescents are already using social media to maintain relationships and connect to new groups. Also known as, the rich get richer hypothesis. Many more adolescents are less socially adept using social networking websites to make new friends when they might be too shy to do so in real life. Second, how are relationships forming online? Evidence shows that young people maintain already formed friendships and build new friendships online. Social media has taken away face-to-face social skill development. The constant growth in technology has resulted in the creation of over five online social networks for people to sign up for and be members. Research shows that almost every teenager is an active member in one social media site, at least. Further research into the time that people spend online in these social networks per day is even alarming. The connection between teenagers and online social networks is a cause if concern. Adolescents use the social networks as a platform for creating friends and getting to know each other. However, despite the strong relation between teenagers and social networks, better...
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...Answer1 Richardson Branson is the CEO and founder of virgin group. Virgin group consists of many companies such as Virgin brides, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Blue, Virgin cars, Virgin mobile, Virgin trains, Virgin Airlines and many more. Virgin is a well known brand all over the world especially in Europe & United Kingdom and his leader Richard Branson reached the status of a celebrity due to its great contribution in the emergence of the virgin group. An important element in Branson's success is his belief in delegation. Entrepreneur can be defined as an individual who organizes and operates a business that involves certain risks. In the modern age, one of the most successful examples of this is Sir Richard Branson. He displays a disciplined work ethic that demonstrates a passionate devotion to business. He is recognized as a highest achiever in the world of entrepreneurs. Sir Richard Branson has many entrepreneurial chacteristics and qualities that made him a successful man. Some of the entrepreneurial chacteristics that Richard exhibits: Visionary Evangelist As a visionary evangelist, the leader is able to communicate with other on the behalf of organization. Branson believes that there are industries which can be “Virgined” and his main concerned is to extend the virgin name while maintaining its high standards. This shows that Branson has a vision of captivating new and challenging future prospects. Self-awareness: Human beings are complex & diverse and for great leaders...
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...chain management evolved, manager’ recognition or awareness in interaction of the supply chain to consider the effect of the decision that have made within linked up businesses. It requires ability in building up tight ligaments together with buyers and sellers through ongoing communication to enable business to consider the supply chain as a whole in order to maximize value for the customer. Objective of Supply Chain Management To optimize performance of the chain to add as much value as possible by least cost within the system wide perspective, supply chain management is a dramatic change in behaviour from more traditional management approaches, and it has been motivated by variety of conditions. The most important reasons for the adoption of supply chain management could be able to summarized as it follows; 1. Increased competition to meet customer expectations (value wise). 2. Recognition in which customer decisions as well as actions that often dictate costs and limitations for suppliers. 3. Recognition in which supplier decisions as well as actions often dictate costs and limitations for customers. 4. increased potential for timely communication and feedback, which brought about by technological advantages. Increased Competition Since the changes, in human history as well as whole history of this universe, are unavoidable although, the business that need to continue to compete at whatever situation must...
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...applied to police technology such as smart guns, iris scanners, fingerprint scanners, and facial recognition systems. This document hopes to provide police departments with enough information to make an informed decision on bringing biometric technology into their units. This document will also touch on amendment rights pertaining to biometric technology in order to make departments aware of how this technology pertains to a citizen’s civil rights. Biometrics is rapidly advancing in our society and police departments need to be aware of how beneficial this technology really is. Biometrics: How Are Police Departments Utilizing This Technology? Biometrics is defined as using inherent human characteristics as a form of identification and access control. There are more than six billion people on our planet and each one can be identified as different by their biometric characteristics (Baker, 2011). With that many people out there police officers now more than ever need a quick and accurate way to identify suspects when working the field. The way they are accomplishing this task is by using mobile biometric identifying devices such as fingerprint scanners, iris scanners, and facial recognition devices. Between the years 2000 and 2009, 584 officers were feloniously killed in the field, 82 percent of the people involved in those officers deaths had at least one past criminal arrest or a current warrant out for their arrest (Wolfhope, 2011)....
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...G902- Professional Profiling [pic] Travelling Cheap, With JetStar Asia Competitive Analysis Of JetStar Asia In The Low-Cost Carrier Industry |Content Pages | |1. INTRODUCTION | |1.1 What is JetStar Asia? | |1.2 Low-Cost Carrier? | |1.3 JetStar’s Mission | |1.4 JetStar’s Objective | | | |2. SWOT Analysis | |2.1 Strength | |2.1.1 Demographic | |2.1.2 Finance ...
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...May 5 Business Plan – Internet for Business 2012 Nguyen Minh Hoang Nguyen The Bao Doan Phuong Van Tran Thuy Vu Nguyen Duy Bien Dang Thi Diem Phuc Business Plan – Internet for Business RMIT International University Vietnam Bachelor of Commerce Program Subject Code: ISYS2110 Subject Name: INTERNET FOR BUSINESS Location & Campus (SGS or HN) where RMITVietnam you study: Title of Assignment: Group Assignment: E-Business Plan Student name& ID: Nguyen Minh Hoang : s3246594 Nguyen The Bao: s3230511 Team Apple Doan Phuong Van : s3231514 Tran Thuy Vu: s3233211 Nguyen Duy Bien : s3193002 Dang Thi Diem Phuc : s3222619 Teachers Name: Cherryl Narumon Group Number: 4 Assignment due date: 5th May 2012 Date of Submission: 5th May 2012 Number of pages including this one: 38 Word Count: 6500 Assignment Cover Page RMIT University | The A toy – Toy Rental Business 1 Business Plan – Internet for Business Contents Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Business model ................................................................................................................................. 4 I. a. b. c. d. II. III. 1. a. a. 2. a. b. c. d. e. 3. Business Description ......................
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...Q1 Using Pestel Analysis, identify what environmental factors are affecting big pharmaceutical companies strategically? Introduction Johnson and Scholes (2002) p10 define strategy as “the direction and scope of an organisation over the long term, which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a changing environment and to fulfil stakeholder expectations.” The purpose of an environmental scan is to develop a list of diverse variables from an uncertain and complex world to offer actionable responses and in so doing allow a structured framework for defensive or offensive actions. The Pharmaceutical Industry environment is an ethical drugs industry aimed at providing beneficial products and services for human consumptions as well as chemical medicaments and biotechnology. The 21st century has brought about changes within the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry today is highly competitive non-assembled global industry. To define the non-assembled aspect of the industry is where manufactures components parts or materials are relied on for example glass, woodwork and chemicals. It was in the sixties and seventies that the pharmaceutical industry was to expand rapidly as it was a period referred to as the spending boom. Research and development (R and D) was also a major investment and trust which was provided for Universities and education institutions. Pencillin which was the major discovery in the pharmaceutical industry...
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...remedies of this sector. Objectives of the study: The main objectives of this report are * To gain knowledge about the industrial unrest in the readymade garments industry of Bangladesh. * To identify the problems of RMG sector of Bangladesh. * To analysis the problems of this sector. * To fine out the remedies that could solve the problems of RMG sector. * To gain in-depth knowledge about the readymade garments industry of Bangladesh. Data collection method: This assignment has been completed by taking information from different relevant sources. This assignment also consists of a significant amount of data obtained from some secondary sources. For the secondary data, we have taken some information from the internet. We also collect information from various industries’ web sites. Limitation of the study: Though our study is based on secondary data, there is a possibility of getting fake information. This study is weak in some points. The notable ones are as under: * This report has been made basis only on the secondary data. * The survey was conducted in a very short time so we were not able to collect more information. * This survey made on crisis situation of Bangladesh, so it was difficult to collect samples. * Lack of experience in this field. Analysis Technique & Report Writing: In preparing this report, we approached according to the following procedure: * Select the topic * Collect information from different...
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...Issues in Business Management and Economics Vol.1 (3), pp. 047-060, July 2013 Available online at http://www.journalissues.org/journals-home.php?id=2 © 2013 Journal Issues Original Research Paper The adoption of mobile phone: How has it changed us socially? Accepted 7 July , 2013 Augustine Addo Institute of Entrepreneurship and Finance, Department of Entrepreneurship and Finance, Kumasi polytechnic, P. O. Box 845, Kumasi, Ghana. Author Email: augustine_addo@yahoo.co.uk Tel: +233263928024 Mobile phone use has changed from a percieved item of luxury to an every day necessity for many people. This study therefore examined how the adoption of mobile phones has impacted in changing the behaviour and attitude of users. Kumasi Polytechnic was used as the study area. A total of 250 respondents were randomly selected for this study. Using indepedent sample t-test and a descriptive case study in which a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques were used to analyze the data, the study finds positive evidence of positive influence in mobile adoption in enhancing communication is significant. Mobile phone has changed the way people communicate and live by influencing peoples’ life in a wide scope predicated to change society in a larger and deeper way more than its intended use as communication tool. The adoption of mobile phones have some negative effects such as enhancing crime, diversion of attention, increased social anxiety and capturing obscene audio-visuals...
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