...Discussion Board One This discussion board deals with reasons for Christians to study secular literature and the pros and cons thereof. One of the main contentions of the presentations is that the written word or literature provokes critical thinking whereas television does not. The assertion is that literature whether it is secular in nature or not promotes critical thinking while television reduces critical thinking and promotes emotional thought. I agree with this premise and believe that it can be supported through observation. I have been involved with the instruction of adult learners, teens, and young children for many ears through various venues. One thing that I believe to be common among all three is that as a group they would all rather watch an entertaining video or movie that read the same story in book or short story form. What are the reasons for this? The first reason it that is just simply easier and requires less work to watch the video. People have become conditioned to the “easy” way of leaning and do not resent being told what to think. Secondly to read the material requires a personal investment of time and energy. The individual must read the material then digest it and from their own opinions based on their experience and life lessons. The third reason is that once you have read the material and formed your own opinion is that in many instances you are asked to present your beliefs or finding s to the group at large, or to present your understanding...
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...Concept of cloud computing was started in 2000s. Once this was introduced it has created a new business model and platform for many online business and technologies. To store any kind of data local servers will be used. But in today’s world with internet, the practice of using servers and networks on internet for storing, processing and managing any kind of data online is the concept of cloud computing (Margaret Rouse, 2015). Through this, both its platform and type of applications can be described, cloud computing provides its services in several layers to its users. By using this technology and internet applications can be run based on large data centers and servers. Cloud computing has gone through number of several phases including grid and utility computing (Margaret Rouse, 2015). Many enterprises have already started to implement cloud computing by knowing the potential of this technology. In 2012 according to IDG reports, (IDG ENTERPRISE MARKETING, 2016) the usage of cloud computing was 12% and by 2014 the number increased to 69% with the humongous change. The main reasons for many of enterprises to adopt to this technology was its cost and the flexibility to run any application faster than by the traditional method. Few features in could computing and its business functions like data analytics, data and storage management content management, conferencing solutions and collaborations. By 2015, 24% of enterprises used cloud computing for standardizing their IT budgets...
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...Introduction: Modern management science philosophy considers customer satisfaction as a baseline standard of performance and a possible standard of excellence for any business organization. Especially, banks due to similar services compete together in order to achieve customer satisfaction. They try to create eases for their customers. E- Banking is a new system that most banks have used to achieve this objective. This system opens multiple routes to the customer service (e.g., ATM machines, telephones, Internet and mobile phones). Although, advancements in e-banking technology have already transformed the modern world, E -banking is still an innovation in creating products and services through electronic channels with low cost. These products and services include billing, credit, deposit management and electronic payment of products and services such as electronic money (Samadi and eskandari, 2012). The number of mobile phone users worldwide reached the seven billion mark in 2013(the mobile economy 2013). By the end of 2013 there will be more mobile devices on earth than people. One of the recent innovation in the field of communication is mobile banking, where a customer interacts with a bank via mobile phone. In India there are 867.80 million mobile phone subscribers of those 21.61 million people use internet on these devices (TRAI 2013). A new approach in the field of banking services is the supply of financial and banking services with mobile phones. Mobile- banking...
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