Assessing Network Security

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The Emergence of “Educational Networking”

As distance education continues to grow in its popularity, so does the use of social networking. Hindered by concerns associated with privacy and safety, social networking sites (SNSs) are frequently banned from educational settings. The following article presents the implementation of an alternative social networking site in distance education. Findings from this study highlight the benefits…

The Use of Alternative Social Networking Sites in Higher Educational Settings

Distance education as a primary means of instruction is expanding significantly at the college and university level. Simultaneously, the growth of social networking sites (SNS) including Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace is also rising among today’s college students. An increasing number of higher education instructors are beginning to combine distance education delivery with SNSs. However, …

Adobe® Creative Cloud™ Design Tools Digital Classroom

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Strategic Approach to the Evaluation of Programs Implemented Under the Tom La…

Since the first case was recognized in the early 1980’s, the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), has achieved pandemic proportions (CDC, 1981; UNAIDS, 2006). According to the latest report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) (2009), HIV/AIDS continues to be a…

Radioisotope Power Systems

For nearly 50 years, the United States has led the world in the scientific exploration of space. U.S. spacecraft have circled Earth, landed on the Moon and Mars, orbited Jupiter and Saturn, and traveled beyond the orbit of Pluto and out of the ecliptic. These spacecraft have sent back to Earth images and data that have greatly expanded human knowledge, though many important questions remain una…

Leadership by Example

In response to a request from Congress, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened a committee to conduct an analysis of the federal government’s quality enhancement processes in six government programs—Medicare, Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Department of Defense TRICARE and TRICARE for Life programs, the Veterans Health Administration program, and the Indian…

Aviation Weather Services

Adverse weather has a major impact on aviation safety and efficiency. During 1988–1992, one-fourth of all aircraft accidents and one-third of fatal accidents were related to weather (Salottolo, 1994). In addition, 41 percent of air traffic delay time during 1990 was attributable to weather. These delays accounted for approximately $4.1 billion of direct costs to the airline industry—not inc…

ADVANCED ACCOUNTING

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Optimizing IT Performance

Over the last few years, corporations have been under incre- ased pressure to optimize resource utilization while at the same time adapting more quickly to changes required by the business. This pressure has direct impact on IT organizati- ons faced with more complex installations that need to be implemented, enhanced and managed with fewer allocated resources. Most organizations have invested…

Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef

“When deploying and administering large infrastructures, it is still common to think in terms of individual machines rather than view an entire infrastructure as a combined whole. This standard practice creates many problems, including labor-intensive admin- istration, high cost of ownership, and limited generally available knowledge or code usa- ble for administering large infrastructures.�…

Shipbuilding Technology and Education

After decades of outstanding contributions to the nation’s naval capability, the U.S. shipbuilding industry is in crisis. During the 1980s, at the behest of the Reagan administration, U.S. shipbuilders turned to constructing many new naval vessels. Following these achievements and with the ensuing defense builddown, U.S. shipbuilders lost significant parts of their business and work force, ha…

Investor Exits, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Firm Growth

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001 coincided with an abrupt and so far lasting change in the development of entrepreneurial venture-backed firms in the United States. Previously, entrepreneurs and investors commonly took viable young firms public through initial public offerings (IPOs). In some well-known cases, these firms subsequently grew into major, globally competitive corporatio…

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN SPORT, EXERCISE AND HEALTH

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Risk management— Principles and guidelines

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Communicating to Manage Health and Illness

Our experience of health and illness is shaped by our personal background, social networks, cultural context, and community affiliations. We undertook this edited volume because we believe communication processes are a link between personal, social, cultural, and institutional factors and various fac- ets of health and illness. For example, social networks and the social support they can prov…

On the optimal allocation of assets in investment portfolio with application …

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RENEWING THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINSTRATION

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clean a history of personal hygiene and purity

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OUR CITIES

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Equal Employment Opportunity in Tacoma Area Local Government Julv 1980

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

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Social Networks

Technology and it’s take up and use by individuals and business has transformed how we run our lives and our businesses over the past sixty years. That rate of change is accelerating as we find new uses for ever more capable technologies which can be applied to more areas of our lives than imagined even ten years ago. Today we are learning and being trained to be capable members of the workfo…

Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem

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Macro-Modelling, Default and Money

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STATISTICS AND ECONOMICS

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Disaster Risk Management in Post-2015 Development Goals

Disasters can hamper economic growth, affect poverty levels and cause human suffering. Without significant action, the extent and impact of economic and social damage associated with disasters will get worse over the next 20 years, largely as a result of growing exposure of people and assets. This has the potential to reverse development progress in hard-hit areas. Including measures to pro…

Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age

Computer systems are coming of age. As computer systems become more prevalent, sophisticated, embedded in physical processes, and interconnected, society becomes more vulnerable to poor system design, accidents that disable systems, and attacks on computer systems. Without more responsible design and use, system disruptions will increase, with harmful consequences for society. They will also re…

Management Information System: Information Needs of Organization

In present era of information technology where information is not considered as base for competitive advantage but it is considered as competitive necessity, role of information in decision making become more vital. In this article author discuss about the introduction, nature and types of information in organizations. How information requirements in organizations could be determined analy…

Relative Deprivation: Specification, Development, and Integration

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