Computers
As each us of look at our lives, do we realize the importance of these electronic mechanisms we call computers? I shall now endeavor to elaborate upon how these mind tools have, and continue to affect me. Every morning, I awake to the awkward squawking of my alarm clock. Much to my dismay, I groggily smack the 'off' button and crawl out of bed. My first encounter of the day has just occurred. That small black box that faithfully rouses me, is a simple microcomputer. If it were not for this device, many days I would arrive late to
Balance ScoreCard
APPLYING THE BALANCE SCORE CARD ON TITLAS VENTURES LIMITED NAME: FADERERA ADENIYI STUDENT NUMBER: 2500660 Report Submitted as a part of Assessment for the unit Office systems Year 3 BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology Faculty of Business, Computing and Information Management London South Bank University Lecturer: Mike Scott Submission Date: 14th April 2008 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Initially the balanced scorecard was designed as a measurement device, nowadays it has become a strategic management system that enables business to clarify their vision and strategy by measuring and following up and them translates them into strategic actions across the businesses. It is an extensively recognized as an important management tool and concept for businesses as it provides managers with a management methodology to help bridge the gap between strategic objectives and their operational activates. It also provides feedback around both the internal businesses and external outcomes in order to continuously improve strategic performance. When integrated fully, the balance scorecard transforms the businesses' strategic planning into a sustainable achievement. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE . INTRODUCTION 4 2. TERMS OF REFERENCE 5 3. THE BALANCED SCORECARD 6 3.1. THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT 7 3.2. THE FOUR PERSPECTIVES OF THE BALANCED SCORECARD 8 4.
Football Hooliganism
I am going to study football hooliganism. I have chosen to study football hooliganism because I am very passionate about football I play it almost everyday, I even play for a football team. Football is my favourite sport. There is only one bad side of football and that is all the violence that takes place as a result of this wonderful game. I feel that there are too many football hooligans that just want to cause trouble. I want to find out if alcohol is the main cause of all of this violence. My hypothesis is football hooliganism is alcohol related. I aim to cover what makes a person become a hooligan, is alcohol directly linked to football hooliganism, why do hooligans do what they do and are football hooligans really football fans. Hypothesis Football hooliganism is alcohol related. Key questions ) Does alcohol fuel football violence? 2) What fuels football violence? 3) Is football hooliganism an English problem? 4) Is being a football hooligan enjoyable? Research methods I am going to use the Internet and the library to gather my data. These two sources of information are highly accurate because I will be looking in factual books and on the Internet. Methodology Sociologists use many different research methods to investigate the society. There are two main sources of data that sociologists tend to use. These sources are primary and secondary sources.
Forensic Tools and Techniques - EnCase & XRY
Contents Section 1 – Forensic Software Evaluation Section 2 – Forensic Software Portfolio Bibliography Section 1 – Forensic Software Evaluation Encase by Guidance Software EnCase by Guidance Software is an industry-standard computer investigation solution. It provides forensic practitioners with useful features to assist them with efficient, forensically sound data collection and investigation using a repeatable process. EnCase provides useful tools for data acquisition, file recovery and indexing/search file parsing. Two major features that EnCase boasts are the range of operating systems and file systems supported. Each operating system contains a different amount of file systems which the operating system utilises. It is useful to have this feature available to examiners due to the fact that there are many different electronic devices running these different Operating Systems and file systems. For example, EnCase provides support for Smartphone and Tablets running the following operating systems; Apple iOS, Android OS, Blackberry OS, Palm OS, Symbian and Windows Mobile OS. EnCase also organises files in a sensible and logical order. For example, it creates a directory for evidence files, which contains only the files or folders needed. Another feature of the data acquisition process is the Cyclical Redundancy Checksum (CRC) hash. Each
Abstract This report is dedicated to demonstrating and critically reviewing new features and developments happening in Microsofts new Operation System, i.e. Windows 7.
Microsoft Windows 7 Abstract This report is dedicated to demonstrating and critically reviewing new features and developments happening in Microsoft’s new Operation System, i.e. Windows 7. The research team searches through various web resources and constructs this web site. Hopefully this web site will serve you as a one-destination date resources regarding what’s newly happening in Windows 7. The report is structured into six parts as following. . Overview The kernel of Windows 7 is largely unchanged from that of Vista. Only minor upgrade has been made. In fact, lots of Changes in Windows 7 are surface User Interface (UI) changes, which directly impact users [7]. Microsoft develops Windows 7 based on the principle of guaranteeing the compatibility of applications and devices from Vista. In this way, clients will not encounter the tortuous incompatibilities when using Vista [7]. Microsoft promises to “maximize application compatibility between Windows Vista and Window 7. The majority of applications that already work on Windows Vista will continue to work with little or no issues. [19]” Microsoft refuses to give a timetable for Windows 7 development. However, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference indicates some phases as below [3]: . Pre-Beta (M3 or Milestone 3) release to developers (those that attended the PDC and / or Windows Hardware Engineering
A basic RFID system consists of main two elements an interrogator and a transponder
Executive summary Table of contents Historical over view The World War II was the root in discovering the radio frequency identification technology, the concept of the radar used by the big nations participating in the war, was discovered by Sir Robert Alexander Watson-watt a Scottish physicist in 1935, there was a problem in identifying the plans until the Germans radar crew discovered that if the plan changed direction it change the radio signal reflected back. In the 1960s scientist and academics from around the globe managed in developing radio frequency energy and use it to identify objects remotely, that was good news for organizations, company’s began commercializing the anti theft system that uses radio waves in order to keep track of goods. The 1970s was the innovative era of he RFIDs, deferent organizations helped in developing the technology, Charles Walton a US entrepreneur patented a passive transponder used to unlock doors without the key he then went to licensed the technology to lock makers and security companies. In the same decade the US government was also working on RFID technology, the Energy Department asked a national laboratory to develop a tracking system for nuclear material the concept of putting a transponder in a van or a truck and readers at the secure facilities, the antenna at the gate would alert the transponder on the van and then
NTUC case study. On June 1, 2003, Income succeeded in the migration of its legacy insurance systems to a digital web-based system
Modernization of NTUC Income CASE STUDY NTUC Income (Income), one of Singapore's largest insurers, has over 1.8 million policy holders with total assets of S$21.3 billion. The insurer employs about 3,400 insurance advisors and 1,200 office staff, with the majority located across an eight-branch network. On June 1, 2003, Income succeeded in the migration of its legacy insurance systems to a digital web-based system. The Herculean task required not only the upgrading of hardware and applications, it also required Income to streamline its decade-old business processes and IT practices. Up until a few years ago, Income's insurance processes were very tedious and paper-based. The entire insurance process started with customers meeting an agent, filling in forms and submitting documents. The agent would then submit the forms at branches, from where they were sent by couriers to the Office Services department. The collection schedule could introduce delays of two to three days. Office Services would log documents, sort them, and then send them to departments for underwriting. Proposals were allocated to underwriting staff, mostly randomly. Accepted proposals were sent for printing at the Computer Services department and then redistributed. For storage, all original documents were packed and sent to warehouses where, over two to three days, a total of seven staff would log and
Organisational Information Systems. In this assignment I have chosen the accounting department, I will be discussing key work process within this department and the software that is used for these processes
In this assignment I will be discussing software used in my chosen department and the key work processes, identify and explain the key mobile devices used and how the internet used by the employees, and which would be the best methodology to improve systems. Task 1 In this assignment I have chosen the accounting department, I will be discussing key work process within this department and the software that is used for these processes. According to Z.Hussain (2009) a system ‘is a set of interrelated parts, arranged into an organized whole or orderly structure’ systems within accounting are very systematic a methodical as all decisions is made according to plans. A system contains many sub systems, these are smaller systems (departments) within the system that work to run the system effectively and efficiently, these sub-systems may be different but they are interrelated as they share data/information between each other to goals that help towards filling the larger goals of the accounting system. Figure.1 ACCOUNTS MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL Budgeting Sales Absorption Costing Cash Flow Depreciation Break Even Profit/ Loss Ratios Marginal costing Income Statements Investment Appraisal Financial statements Figure.1 – The chart above shows that accounts can be separated into two sub systems, and can further be decomposed into sub-sub systems. By decomposing a
Newton's cooling law application
________________ . INTRODUCTION Temperature differences in any situation result from energy flow into a system (heating by electrical power, contact to thermal bath, absorption of radiation, e.g. microwaves, sun radiation, etc) or energy flow from a system to the surrounding. The former leads to heating, whereas the latter results in cooling of an object. The cooling of objects is usually considered to be due to three fundamental mechanisms: conduction of heat, convection and radiative transfer of energy . Although these three mechanisms of energy flow are quite different from each other, one often finds a very simple law for their combined action to describe the cooling curves of hot objects if temperature differences are small. When hot bodies are left in the open they are found to cool gradually. Newton found that the rate of cooling was proportional to the excess of temperature of the body over that of the surroundings. This observation is what is called Newton’s law of Cooling. It is not known if Newton attempted any theoretical explanation of this phenomenon. But it is unlikely because the concepts about heat were not clear in those times. But what is important is that the original statement of the conditions for the validity of Newton’s law included the presence of a draught. Let us see now the process of cooling of a solid suspended in a fluid. When a body
Why has database security become such an important issue for companies these days? What are the key principles that should form the basis of a corporate strategy for information security?
Why has database security become such an important issue for companies these days? What are the key principles that should form the basis of a corporate strategy for information security? In order to establish why database security has become such an important issue for companies nowadays it first needs to be established what is database security and why the protection of the aforementioned is of such critical importance to companies. As relates to security it is the protection of assets from threats. Therefore the definition of database security can be taken to be the protection of information from threats, protecting information systems, data, messages, and information processed, stored and communicated through information systems. Through database security a company ensures the protection and security of systems, media and facilities which process and maintain information vital to its operation[1]. This is the reason for the increased importance to this issue by many corporations. In an effort to protect vital information which would be within the systems of these organizations database security over the years has become more stringent. With information such as personal details on employees, customers, and other individuals, their financial information or transactions, trade information, e-mails; videos, software, and loads of other information if access by the wrong
