ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
As I read and listen and see what passes for news lately, from the Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial to the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales flap to the ginned-up acrimony between Senators Clinton and Obama, I get more than a little fed up with the griping and complaining among political commentators over bias in the media. Not because there is no bias in the media, but because that bias is not driven by political ideology, but by profit motive. During the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, the prevailing cry from liberal quarters was that the media leaned right. The American public was fed a steady diet of headlines focused on Clinton’s personal foibles involving women like Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and Gennifer Flowers. The highly public scrutiny of the Clinton White House, including events such as the Whitewater real estate deal, Vince Foster’s suicide, missing FBI files, and the president’s peccadilloes prompted then First Lady Hillary Clinton to famously claim that there was a “vast right-wing conspiracy” against her husband. In November of 2000, George Walker Bush won the presidency over Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr. in a controversial election that ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court. News coverage of that affair and the political firestorm it touched off dominated the news for obvious reasons, but there were other items that caught the attention of the media, such as the president’s frequent verbal gaffes, Attorney General John David Ashcroft’s decision to cover the bared breasts of statues in Justice Department buildings, and Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney’s association with federal contractor Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) Energy Services. The terror attacks of September 11, 2001 and our own military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq put the national focus on more serious issues for a while, but before long the emphasis was again on the miscues of the president and his administration. The si
ITE Distribution in Dubai and Qast Software Group of China are potential software distributors for Snyder Software’s Predictivity Solution in oil and gas. Snyder Software will benefit greatly from a partnership deal with these two leading software distributors. Qast Software Group is among the leading software distributors in China. The company aims to provide leading global solutions and technologies to the emerging Chinese industries. ITE Distribution has over two decades of experience in software and technology distribution in Dubai and other parts of the Middle East. Qast Software Group has a unique business model that has allowed it to achieve success. The company has five retail outlets across mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Qast Software Group has thousands of clients from both private and public sectors that seek innovative solutions for their organizations. Also, it has established several reseller outlets (Qast Software Group has over 1,000 resellers within its sales network). The company also services, including technical support, sales, marketing, training and workshops, software customization, IT consulting, and OEM, among others. Qast Software Group has succeeded because of its direct marketing approaches and customer service. It continues to introduce new products and global partners to offer various products to customers and resellers. Qast Software Group encourages global firms that seek to enter the Chinese market to consult and get further assistance from its partners. Therefore, Snyder Software will work with a reputable firm that accounts for all the necessary processes for successful entry into the Chinese market. Qast Software Group works with many global business partners. In addition to these global IT firms, Qast Software Group will represent Snyder Software to distribute its Predictivity Solution in China and other parts of East Asia. The company is known for its software varieties, including unique cutting-edge technologies. ITE Distribution could be an imperative partner for Snyder Software because of its several decades of experience in IT distribution services in Dubai and other Gulf region countries. ITE Distribution works with major global firms in the IT industry. Moreover, the company has distinguished itself from competitors through quality services and availability. The company has established a relationship with vendors, which has led to product sales growth and market penetration across the GCC and other regions. Today, ITE Distribution focuses on CIS countries. It also has a logistics center in the popular Jebel Ali Free Zone. ITE Distrib
Modern society is often faced with many problems related to both potent drugs and drugs themselves. However, a more dire problem is the emotional, irrational, and political populist regulation of drugs. As a rule, this leads to the fact that the consumption of narcotic drugs only increases, with a general decline in the quality of the consumed product. But the most socially dangerous consequence of regulation and the war on drugs is creating a myth about drug users, linking the increase in criminal activity in this area with unprotected racial or gender groups. It can be noted that gender as a sampling criterion among drug users is not valid. As seen in a 2020 study, stricter laws against recreational marijuana use, rather than medical use, generally exacerbated the problem (Yu et al., 2020). What is most important to note in this study is that rates of use and other properties for both recreational and medical use of marijuana are the same for both men and women. It is also important that since the middle of the last century, there has been a stereotype linking the use and production of crack cocaine, methamphetamines, and other hard drugs with poor whites and the majority of black people. Such racist rhetoric is still applicable in modern society. However, many studies, including modern ones, indicate a complete lack of connection between the production and use of hard drugs and certain racial or class groups (Dollar, 2018). Thus, the concept of relatedness between drug laws breaking racial minorities is a prejudice. Thus, it was concluded that identifying women as the group most associated with drug regulatory violations is sexist and based on bias. Moreover, myths about societal attempts to link drug use and production to unprotected gender, racial, or class groups are driven by the political fear of hegemonic groups. Thus, the political description is an attempt to create drug stereotypes against minorities.
Introduction Business ethics is a set of professional ethics that tries to inspect ethical problem or the principles of ethics that can emerge in a business organization. It applies to business conduct, individuals, and the entire organization. Business ethics involves ways in which a business organization deals with its customers and the outside world. This means that the outsiders will have different perspectives depending on how the business deals with its clients and the way in which it conducts its operations. It can also refer to the pattern of acceptable behavior followed by a business organization in its daily activities that emanate from the employees. Ethics in a certain business vary depending on the business industry, as well as how the business organization deals with its clients. This means that a certain business will not just start portraying ethical behavior without looking at the business industry, and the clients that the business serves. Business ethics also reflects on how the business will handle different operational areas (Ferrell, p. 2). Ethics profitability The implementation of ethics in an organization can be a profitable venture. There are many ways in which a business organization can benefit from the application of ethics. It can be noted that ethics in a business has benefits to the organization, for the society, and for employees working in the organization. Business ethics improves the performance of employees. When a certain business organization operates under a written code of ethics, the employees tend to be committed towards achieving the company’s stipulated goals. This will go a long way into improving the performance of the employees. Business ethics creates a sense of responsibility amongst the employees. Therefore, they will be able to perform as expected in order to meet the goals of the business organization in which they are working. This improves the output due to improved productivity of the organization. Eventually, this leads to increased profits unlike in a business where no ethics. In such businesses, the employees will work according to their own will hence reducing the actual output of the business organization. Business ethics improves the reputation of the business organization. In a business where there are ethics, most of the outsiders will tend to accept that organization. Good business ethics creates a good name in the society hence most of the customers will go for its products. This increases its selling potential leading to increased profit making. For example, a company dealing with food products should practice healthy behavior. This can be achieved through maintaining cleanliness and offering good services to clients. This can be made known to clients through advertising. This makes increased number of customers to buy from such an organization. Eventually, this results in increased revenue because of the good
What does family mean to you? The notion of ‘my family’ is meaningful to me in several different ways. First, it allows me to experience the sensation that I am not alone in the universe, as the individualities of my parents and siblings are inseparably fused with that of my own. This simply cannot be otherwise, because at least half of the genes that determined my character and my physical appearance are present in the bodies of my closest relatives. What it means is that invoking the term family provides me with a sense of psychological comfort, because it reminds me of the fact that, despite the comparative shortness of my personal life, some part of my genetically defined sense of self-identity will be preserved in the future. That is, of course, for as long as the continual proliferation of my family-bloodline is being ensured. Second, by being affiliated with my closest relatives (family) I can take additional pride in practicing some Chinese cultural traditions, passed within my family from generation to generation, such as respect towards elders, hard workings, and the love of education (Thornton 1994). In other words, my very awareness of the fact that I am a child of my parents causes me to think that I indeed have what it takes to be able to succeed in life. Third, my family means to me that I will always be able to find much-needed support when experiencing hardships because it is namely the sense of solidarity, which defines my family members as individuals more than anything else does. What group, or groups, of people do you include when you say “my family?” What other people do you consider to be in your family? When I say ‘my family’, I primarily refer to my closest relatives – grandparents, parents, and siblings. Nevertheless, I often refer to the notion in question as such that connotes an additional meaning. For example, being of Chinese descent I sometimes apply this notion, while talking about other Chinese people that happened to share the same existential values with me – especially the ones that I know will stick up for me when I find myself in trouble. Therefore, I sometimes refer to my closest friends in terms of family members – because these individuals never refused to offer a friendly hand when I needed it, there is indeed a certain rationale in thinking of them, as such that is being related to me. What have been the major events in the life of your family – intimate or public; recent or past; small or large? Probably the most important event that took place in the life of my family was the initial encounter that occurred between my mother and father before they became m
Introduction Speaking about modern Japan, many people are likely to think about technological advancement, state-of-the-art technologies, high-quality electronics, and economic prosperity. In reference to the sins of the past, Japan of the twentieth century is known as one of the largest colonizers in the world using other territories’ resources for its own rapid development. The estimates of economic benefits derived by Japan may vary depending on the origin of authors and their ideological bent in relation to capitalism, but their existence does not present a fact in dispute. The situation is a bit different when it comes to a more specific aspect of exploitation at the confluence of colonialism-related issues and gender-based violence – the history of the so-called comfort women. The complexity of the comfort women issue is linked to a variety of factors, ranging from the attempts to rehabilitate colonialism to controversies related to statistical data. The Comfort Women Debate and the Key Issues The exploitation of people at the times of the Japanese colonial empire is an issue that deserves attention due to its long-term consequences and the influence on different countries’ modern economic situation. Even though the recognition of the past sins in Japan remains critical, some topics such as the life of women in the colonized countries and, more specifically, these women’s sexual exploitation are related to numerous research gaps (Ward and Lay 255). Judging from the focus of some works in the fields of history and sociology, the suffering of women forced into military prostitution under the Japanese colonial rule is a topic that is still regarded as controversial and disputable. The first issue partially related to the comfort women dispute in the twenty-first century is the degree to which the flaws of colonialism are recognized. In the discussion of colonial capitalism in Asian countries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, some researchers of Japanese descent stress certain benefits of
Executive Summary Considering the international relations from the trading position, we have chosen the idea of confronting of the Australian market and the American market with the purpose to help Australian EKEN Power Bands brand expend at the international arena. We are going to consider the product and its significance at the Australian and US markets, identify competitors, check the options for entering international markets and expand there, underline the country of product origin and the consumers behaviour there, consider American consumer ethnocentrism and animosity, point to the market segmentation, target audience and positioning and on the basis of this information highlight international marketing mix and other related factors with the recommendations EKEN Power Bands should follow if it wants to enter international market and expand there. Having chosen a good advertising strategy, offering unique bands, an office in Los Angeles, creating positive public image in the country of origin and correspondence to the newest technological developments may result in high consumer activities and raise of selling rates in the USA. Country-of-Origin, Consumer Ethnocentrism and Consumer Animosity Country-of-origin Australia is the country which produces EKEN Power Bands and is considered to be its place or origin. The country is developed in the relation to sport, but it seems to be seasonal and the company wants to provide year cycle business. Australian customers are rather prejudiced to the innovation. Much influence is provided by mass media, but the credibility of their impact is rather doubtful. The Australian market is full of sceptical views, the media is a powerful weapon in persuading the minds of people. The negative effect from such news is obvious. Once the news reported that “A Wristband claiming to boost strength, balance and flexibility has be
Introduction Thinking about childhood is a memory journey that deserves ones precious time, as it aids the appreciation of the challenges encountered by children in the present day world. A few years back, it was common sight to see children playing outside all through the day. As masters of their craft, children in those days created various games for their consumption, which had little or no financial implication, and required no parental guidance. This forms of play traditionally provided avenues for the children to move and make contact with their world, and what they saw and heard from their immediate environment was basically natural and simple. Shortly before the advent of technology, one will be right to categorically state that the sensory stimulation of the child was in equilibrium, giving room for sufficient development and incorporation of all the senses. An integration of all the sensory organs is necessary for a child to garner the basic skills for schooling. Adequate growth of the sense organs plays a significant role in the ability of a child to be attentive. The invasion of technology in the present day world has given rise to a sensory world that is different from what was obtainable in the years past. The most important factors necessary for child development and growth such as mobility and human relationship have now been relegated to the back seat, giving way for technology, which in no small measure has overwhelming consequences. Research Question The purpose of this research proposal is to ascertain the relationship between the ability of the sense organs to process information and the excessive use of technology. This research proposal is attempting at answering the following questions.  1. What is the impact of excessive use of technology on a Childs sensory processing?  2. How can technological use, be balanced to improve the wellbeing and educational performance of a child? Background of Study Some few years back, family time was often observed while doing chores, and it was expected of every child to meet up with the work assigned to him or her, this in a way contributed greatly in motivating a child’s drive to excel. After the day’s work families retired to the dining room, where food was ser
The Global Economic Forum meets annually to discuss some of the global risks, their likelihood of happening and the impact that these risks possess in the event that they actualise. The Global Risks Report 2013, which is the latest report from the forum, bears the theme of strategic resilience and dynamism. This paper supports the approach used in the categorisation of risks and the formulation of recommendations. The main assumption of the experts writing the report was that the majority of the risks mentioned in the report bear the likelihood of being unmanageable. The report also recommends dynamism of strategies by assuming that most strategies currently in place may not adequately cater for the future impacts of most risks. This paper is also in support of the approach that the experts used in formulating ideas by contrasting ‘external’ risk factors such as global risks with ‘preventable’ and ‘strategic’ risks, thus enabling understanding of how global risks should be approached. The report is the product of a Risk Response Network initiative that involves over one thousand experts from different fields ranging from governments, business organisations, academic institutions, and non-governmental organisations. The broad spectrum of participants and their expertise make the research and resultant predictions credible, thus adding to the usefulness of the report in averting future global crises. The Global Risk Report’s focus on a ten-year period is plausible as the experts participating in the survey are taken from different fields and different regions thus giving a more objective look at issues as opposed to conclusions based on assumptions. However, it is worth noting that the report is an analysis of the past and present occurrences and thus cannot be conclusive. Institutions and governments using the report should thus use it as an indicator of issues to address regarding policies and projections in conjunction with their own outlooks unique to their micro and macroeconomics. On main shortcoming foreseeable in this timeframe is on issues regarding the environment, as changes in natural events are hard to predict (Bernstein 56). The best thing would be to apply of keen observation to changes and to alter measures in conformity with the changes to ensure adaptability. The report aims at promoting decisive action in the face of uncertainty especially due to the ambiguity of a risk or the uncertainty of its severity. The report notes that, based of cognitive psychology, people have a tendency to pay closer attention to risks that they have already experienced than risks that they perceive unlikely as it is yet to happen to them and thus unlikely to happen in the near future (World Economic Forum 16). For instance, a person who is a victim of destruction of property by fire is more likely to take up insurance against fire than a person who i
This week my Learning Team was performing the task of searching for appropriate sources. The main task was to check credible sources on the topic each one was proposed and to collaborate in that work. It should be mentioned that collective work, even if the tasks are initially different, is more effective than individual work. Moreover, it is proved by the scientists that the collaboration in literature search is really helpful in scientific fields (Creamer, 2001, p. 133). On the one hand, we had different tasks, like information security, human resource information system, decision support systems, learning management systems and learning content management systems, and medical information system. On the other hand, the research was provided in the same online database and the same field of knowledge and if one came across the information useful for another scholar, he/she shared it. We sat in the same room while information was searched and it helped us. Moreover, each student has different searching techniques and we managed to learn other methods with the help of scholarly collaboration. My field differs greatly from the fields of other team members in the way that my topic is more specified. Therefore, I often came across sources that did not relate to the medical field but were extremely useful for other team members. The sam