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The word ‘networking’ is obtained from the word ‘network’, which, is formed by joining two English words namely; ‘net’ and ‘work’. According to Computing-Dictionary.com (2011), networking can be defined as either “the working or organization of a network or the process of interconnecting more than or two computers for exchanging information.” The computers do not necessarily need to be in the same room; thus, networking cannot be limited by distance. In computing, networking forms the foundation of data sharing and communication between computers but the term has also received extended meanings. In computing, networking involves application of both computer hardware and computer software. SearchNetworking.com (2011) defines networking as “the construction, design, and use of a network that include physical devices, telecommunication protocol and computer software.” The definition further extends to management of the network and establishment of operation policies concerning the network. The physical devices involved in a “computer network include cables, router, bridge, hub, and switch” (SearchNetworking.com, 2011). As aforementioned, the word network is uniquely a juxtaposition of two English words, ‘net’ and ‘work’. Although the “two component words originate from Germanic stock, the juxtaposition was first made in English and later imitated by the Germans as ‘Netzwerk’… The Latin term ‘opus reticulatum’ literally means ‘net work’ and therefore it may have formed the prototype of the English word” (Briggs, 2004). ‘Opus Reticulatum’ is a type of brickwork ordered so that the mortar lines appear like a net. According to Briggs (2004), the earliest occurrence in English is in the Geneva bible of 1560 although the spelling appears differently in subsequent editions. The word is used in different situations throughout history from reticulate structures in animals and plants, rivers and canals, railways, distribution of electrical cables and later wireless broadcasting network in 1914. Today the word networking means different things beyond just computing. The common thing about all the definitions is that all of them originate from the literal meaning of joining. Networking means, “covering an item with an openwork fabric or structure” (Thefreedictionary.com, 2011). This implies that the covering of the item is termed networking. As noted earlier one of the latest use of the term network referred to wireless broadcasting, thus networking is used to me
Executive Summary This report dwells upon the use of TQM principles and ISO standards at Al-Futtaim Group, one of the leading conglomerates in the Middle East. The company has divisions operating in many industries, including construction, real estate, automotive, general services, retail, to name a few. The organization also operates in countries of the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the EU. The company is very successful, and it is steadily growing, expanding in local and international markets. This growth is due to the strong culture and philosophy of the company. The organization strives for being a partner of choice. Such values as flexibility, innovation, and sustainability are central to Al-Futtaim Group. Its customers and partners appreciate this philosophy. Nonetheless, one of the divisions lags behind, and the company is even shutting down a number of its facilities in Singapore. This report provides a brief plan to address the issue and avoid such problems in the future. The plan includes such stages as the implementation of the research, efficient knowledge sharing, improvement of people involvement and sustainability as well as revisiting ISO standards. These steps will enable the organization to improve its performance and ensure compliance with its culture and major TQM principles. Introduction Total Quality Management (TQM) system has proved to be effective as it has enabled many companies to increase their profits through the improvement of the quality of their operations. These principles focus on precision that is achieved through the implementation of a particular plan involving research, development of innovative strategies, and rigorous control. At the same time, ISO
Introduction The movie was directed by Morris Errol and released in 1988. It documents the murdering of a police officer in Dallas, Robert Wood. Adams Randall was arrested tried and imprisoned for the killings. This is only done after several years as the police had no clue who actually committed the crime till a resident of Vidor a sixteen year old gave the police some information. The teen later identified Adams as the killer (‘The Thin Blue Line’.1988) After running out of gas, Adams was picked by Harris the sixteen years old teen. The two went into a drinking spree and watched movies. The story turns into a two different case as Adams held that he went to a motel where he stayed with his brother and slept. On the other hand, the teen claims that the two were stopped by a police where Adam shot the police who was approaching the car they were in. Audiences are taken through the procedure of police collecting evidence. The movie has been hailed for making authorities release Adams after serving 12 years in jail. The essay thus seeks to critically examine the criminal procedures issues that were in the movie especially those in regards the police violating peoples’ right. It is no doubt that the work of police is to solve crime and unmask the real culprits and bring them to books. There are instance that this does not happen and innocent citizens are taken to task and jailed for mistakes they never committed. Criminal procedure issues Criminal procedure has been thought of as rules used by governments to enforce criminal law and help to adjudicate the assertions that an individual has broken criminal laws. The procedure acceptable in regards to criminal process entails “booking, arraignment, bail, preliminary hearing, a trial, sentencing, punishment and lastly appeal” (Zalman 121). Factoring in the issues of democracy and human rights, there is need for prosecutors to gather substantial evidence and at the same time uphold the human rights. After being arrested a police officer tried to force him (Adams) to sign a confession, this amounts to violation of human rights. While undergoing interrogation, the same officer placed a piston on the table and forced him to pick, refusing to pick it up made the police threaten him further by pulling his service revolver on Adams (Gershman 300). It is sad that when the Millers came to testify against Adams, they were to gain as their daughter who as to be taken to court for robbery charges was dropped. Apparently, the huge reward by the police regarding a testimony that will ensure Adams is found guilty did play a major role in ensuring that the innocent suffer while the real culprits walk free. The kind of rebuttal witnesses seemed to have worked in helping the prosecutor cover their story. According to Gershman 312 in a situation where witnesses provided conflicting evidence like in the case of Turko and Harris, it was the responsibility of the court to refer the matt
Introduction It cannot be denied that developing a rich vocabulary is a particularly important aspect of studying a foreign language (L2). At the same time, it is an admittedly difficult task, which prompted researchers to search for effective ways of solving this problem. One of such solutions is the usage of glosses in the process of reading (Cheng & Good 2009; Yoshii 2014; Zhao and Guo 2012). According to Moazzeni et al. (2014, p. 396), reading provides students with a cultural input and glosses help them to remember new words, which enhances the effectiveness of the activity. Numerous studies have been conducted in order to prove the usefulness of glosses for studying English as a foreign language. This paper is devoted to reviewing some of them. Literature Review Definition of Gloss Glosses (metanotes, metatext, paratext) are the “brief definitions or explanations which are most often supplied for “unfamiliar” words in a text” (Moazzeni et al. 2014, p. 398). Such notes may appear in the margin or as footnotes and may provide only the definition or include related meanings along with antonyms in order to facilitate the understanding of the word they describe (Yoshii 2014; Moazzeni et al. 2014). Glosses “enhance general comprehension, improve vocabulary retention, and save students’ time and effort in reading L2 texts” (Moazzeni et al. 2014, p. 399). The following advantages of glosses are usually highlighted: they enable students to read complex texts without interruptions that searching the dictionaries requires; they draw learners’ attention to the words explained facilitating the process of remembering them (Yousefi and Biria 2015). Studies Devoted to Gloss Use The impact of glosses usage on the performance of the learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) has been researched in numerous studies. For the study of Azari (2012, p. 75), 76 EFL learners were divided into groups and provided with marginal Persian (which was their native language, L1) and English (L2) glossaries in order to determine the impact of their usage on the learning process. It turned out that the students’ overall performance did not improve significantly. Most students who participated in the test expressed their willingness to work with the glossaries and preferred those that combined both L1 and L2. The author intends to investigate the matter further in order to attain more general and universal data. Cheng and Good (2009, p. 120) conducted a research for glossaries in Chinese and English with 135 participan
Introduction We-Guessed & You’re-Wrong is an upcoming firm that offers computing technology and data mining software that enables its clients to predict the future of their ventures. Currently, WG & YW is headquartered in Las Cruces and has four business partners and eight clients. The partners spend a lot of time travelling to various parts of the country to meet its clients, attend their conferences, and address their needs within the firm. The firm is projected to expand its customer base from the current 8 clients to 16 clients in the third year. This means that the need to travel will increase. The partners will have a lot of tasks to handle and this will require an effective plan to achieve success (Hockley 38). Given that this is an upcoming firm that is yet to understand market dynamics properly, it will be necessary to develop an effective business plan that will enable it to operate at a relatively low cost. The firm will need to lower its expenses as its income increases in order to increase its profitability. In this business plan, the researcher is trying to develop an effective financial blueprint that can be used by the partners to achieve success in the market. Current Income and Expenses In order to develop an effective business plan, it will be necessary to start by evaluating the current income and expenses at the firm on an annual basis (Loader 50). This evaluation will help the management to understand areas that may need to be addressed in order to increase income and lower expenses. This means that all the expenses, including the cost of renting office and other office expenditures, must be included in order to get the exact cost of running this business. This way, the partners can easily determine their annual profit. The section below looks at the income, expenses, and profitability of the firm. Income   * Revenue per client – $ 6000 per month (8 clients).   * 6000×8= $ 48,000 per month.   * 48,000×12= $ 576,000 per year. Expenses   * 30 trips per partner per year @ $ 3000 (4 partners).   * 30×3000×4= 360,000 per year.   * A new computers and computer software per year @ $ 5,000 (4 partners).   * 5000×4= $ 20,000.   * Cost of renting the office @ $ 56,000 per year.   * Office expenses @ $ 6000 per year.   * Total cost= $ 442000 per year. Profit before tax per year   * 576,000-442,000= $ 134,000 per year. As shown in the above analysis, it is apparent the total income at the firm is $ 576,000 per year that is generated from the 8 clients. The expenses are classified into four main categories. The cost of trips that each of the four partners make in a year is $ 360,000 on average. The cost of buying new personal computers and relevant software for all the partners per year is $ 20,000. The annual rental fee and office expenses are estimated at $ $ 56,000 and $ 6000 respectively. This means that the total expenses are 442,000. I
With increased globalization, people are able to move from one region and relocate to other regions. Immigration has also been enhanced by the fact that mobility of labor is increasingly becoming perfect, compared to ancient years. Though people migrate for good reasons to various parts of the world, they are always faced with difficulties before they eventually settle down. It should be noted that culture, being a unique aspect of human life, is different in every region of the world. Nevertheless, immigrants are usually compelled to adapt to the culture of their hosts in order to associate themselves with them. Usually, various methods are employed by immigrants during adaptation and they include: assimilation, ethnic pluralism and transnationalism. All this processes share somethings in common though they have differences as well. Assimilation is used to refer to a process by which immigrants learn and internalize all the cultural requirements of the hosts. It should be noted that this is a one direction process because the hosts are not expected to learn the culture of the immigrants. Though the difference may not be that significant on first generation immigrants, second generation immigrants are usually so much into the hosts’ culture that it is hard to differentiate the two. However, it has been proofed that the immigrants do not usually forsake their culture as it seems during assimilation. Many of the immigrants only change their way of doing things in public while they maintain everything including their language in private, especially in their homes. Arguably, assimilation is psychologically disturbing to the immigrants and usually causes mental illness. On the other hand, ethnic pluralism refers to the situation where the immigrants learn the hosts’ culture while maintaining their own culture. In this regard, the immigrants’ culture is manifested though it is inferior to that of the hosts. When ethnic pluralism is applied the different cultures co-exist side by side. It should be noted that cultural differences are highly pronounced in et
Introduction The current essay is dealing with Pitt County location incentives through the prism of applying export base theories. In the first place, the character and the scope of incentives for manufacturing and other businesses provided by Pitt County will be analyzed. This will help us to better understand administrative and economic reasons for these policies. Secondly, the outline of export-based theory will be provided and then it will be applied to Pitt County policies. It would be important to assess whether this particular theory is self-sufficient and whether it has heuristic value for understanding the reasons and trends of urban and regional economics and politics. Finally, based on available data and analysis an answer will be found to an important issue on short and long-term relevance of this policy and our own conclusions. Main body First of all, it is evident that Pitt county formed its autonomous approach to economic and investment development in the region. Its position and orientation may be described as pragmatic and development-oriented. It works as an investor who seeks to create better conditions for businesses to genera
Description of Google Chrome Google Chrome is a web browser that does everything web browsers should do. In addition, it is an application platform that behaves like an operating system for computers or portable devices. The Chrome’s development followed the need to interact with websites according to the demands and capabilities of internet-based technologies that are available today (Goolge Chrome Team 1). Unlike other web browsers, Chrome treats each website that a user visits as a separate application. Thus, in addition to having unique applications, it also views sites as application and puts them in sandboxes that could be manipulated and terminated independently. The walled structure implemented through sandboxing is a security feature that ensures different websites cannot interact with each other and exchange information that may lead to the breach of privacy or proliferation of unwanted applications that assume control of user behavior (Goolge Chrome Team 2). Chrome’s underlying purpose is to serve as a vessel for Google users to run the company’s application. The browser software is available for free from the Google website dedicated to Chrome. It is also available from third-party software sites. Chrome as a software project is a property of Google; however, its underlying technologies such as Chromium and Chromium OS are open source projects. Chromium is the web browser project that seeks to provide safe, fast, and stable ways for users to interact with the Internet. Meanwhile, the Chromium OS seeks to provide the same advantages of computing experience for persons who are usually spending time on the web, but at a more integrated level. Google remains as the main sponsor of the open-source projects, thus it has a significant input in the direction the projects take. SWOT Analysis of Google Chrome Strengths Most of the Internet usage today no longer revolves around websites alone, but it is increasingly being based on applications. On one part, people are waiting and uploading videos as ways to communicate their brands, ideologies, interests, and intentions. They are chatting with each other through applications that run on web browsers and playing web-based games alone or in collaboration with others. The existence of a whole user experience and ecosy
With the ever changing social-economic, mental, political, and the general health status of the society, there is need for practitioners in the clinical psychology field to integrate in their practices measures that will ensure they meet the general needs of the society. No one can deny that, over the past few years, the field of clinical psychology has undergone many transformations for it to accommodate the ever-changing societal problems. Such transformations are evident in the present modes of training and service delivery, a fact that research studies attribute to changing societal structures and the need to meet all consumer health needs. In addition, for the practice to be at par with the present s technological innovations in societies, the field of clinical psychology presently encompasses many scientific concepts hence, a clear indication of where the field is heading, as psychologists endeavor to improve their professionalism (Kennedy and Llewelyn, 2001, pp. 74-77). It is important to note that, sometimes predicting the future of this field of psychology is hard. Although this is the case, preparation to meet future health demands depends on the ability of the practitioners in this field to be sensitive to simple clues on the changing trends of individuals’ mental health (p.75). The Future Clinical Psychology and Technology Because of the unpredictability of the future and the fact that global societies are going through a period of rapid technological changes, it is necessary for clinical psychologist to upgrade not only their skills, but also their service delivery methodologies, which is possible through utilization of the available medicinal technological tools. Embracing the use of such technologies is the only ways of ensuring clinical psychologists have the required mix of skills, essential in meeting any emerging mental health problems. To some extent in the present societies, technological innovations and scientific discoveries form the backbone of any societal undertaking; hence, considering the role of clinical psychologist in the society, there is no way clinical psychologists can evade the use of such developments. One primary direction where the future of clinical medicine is headed is the use of the virtual reality in the understanding the nature of the human mind. Because of the promising nature of results from application of this technological innovation as Gaggioli, Mantovani, Castelnuovo, Riva and Wiederhold (2003, pp. 117-119) argue, there is more this technology can achieve in the future, as far as the understanding of the human mental behaviors is concerned. Therefore, this technology will give clinical psycho
Abstract While researching articles about Socialist and Capitalist economies, I came across four authors who had discussed the topics. Some of these authors outlined the benefits of capitalism while others redefined the socialist economy. My goal in this paper is to compare and contrast capitalism and socialism based on three social issues, namely; personal property, company, and retirement pension. To achieve this goal, I have organized my paper into four sections. In the first section, I discuss the concept of capitalism. I also describe the concept of socialism. In the second section, I explain the differences between the two concepts. In the third section, I discuss the similarities between socialism and capitalism. I state their strengths and their weaknesses. I conclude my paper in the fourth section. I also include a list of references after my conclusion. Introduction Capitalism refers to an economic system defined by privately owned resources. Blumenthal (8) defines capitalism as the freedom to exploit one’s resources. Capitalism also refers to a system where the economy is independent of the state (Ross 237). Capitalists argue that everyone has the right to own land, property, and housing among other private possessions (Blumenthal 247). Capitalism is based on the assumption that those who do not work should not eat (Pierce 387). Most Capitalists fail to consider the fact that the government cannot secure everyone’s employment. A country’s natural resources are not always evenly distributed (Ross 85). Pierce (16) defines Socialism as a system where the government evenly distributes a country’s wealth and resources. Socialism refers to a process through which material wealth is controlled by the government (Kronenwetter 63). Differences Between Capitalism and Socialism Private Property Capitalist countries have very strict policies on the private ownership of property. Capitalism leans toward private investment and innovation (Ross 128). Unlike Socialism, Capitalism provides an environment that is conducive for people to buy and sell their possessions. Countries that practice Socialism does not have Property Rights (Kronenwetter 67). Some scholars argue that Socialism discourages people from investing in their commercial activities (Pierce 214). Blumenthal (267) argues that Capitalism encourages creativity through the unequal distribution of resources. People with limited access to resources tend to work harder than those who have ample resources. On the other hand, Socialists give the hard-earned wealth and resources of the rich to the