...information and communication technologies (ICT) in support of all the activities of business. Commerce constitutes the exchange of products and services between businesses, groups and individuals and can be seen as one of the essential activities of any business. Electronic commerce focuses on the use of ICT to enable the external activities and relationships of the business with individuals, groups and other businesses. Electronic business methods enable companies to link their internal and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to work more closely with suppliers and partners, and to better satisfy the needs and expectations of their customers. Key-Words: - VoIP, gatekeeper, endpoint, gateway, softphone, asterisk 1 Introduction E-business involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: electronic purchasing and supply chain management, processing orders electronically, handling customer service, and cooperating with business partners. Special technical standards for e-business facilitate the exchange of data between companies. E-business software solutions allow the integration of intra and inter firm business processes. E-business can be conducted using the Web, the Internet, intranets, extranets, or some combination of these. Applications for electronic business can be divided into three categories: a) Internal business systems: o customer relationship management o enterprise resource planning o...
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...following research is biased because of the age of the population that is sampled. Experimental research is a random selection of participants so this research is non-experimental in nature. The research does demonstrate how replacing one habit with a comparable better habit changes perception and this is the key to change. T-test are valuable tools of statistical data and interpretation of this data and its relevance can be interpreted differently. . Physical activity and body image strategy is a viable alternative to help young woman reduce the chances of becoming addicted to bad habits like smoking This study compares responses from body image manipulation and the urge to smoke. The statistics comes from; Nair, U. S., Collins, B. N., & Napolitano, M. A. (2013). Differential effects of a body image exposure session on smoking urge between physically active and sedentary female smokers. (pg.323) states the following: “The purpose of this study was to assess effects of physical activity versus sedentary behavior on smoking urge response following a body image challenge with weight-concerned female smokers. The primary...
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...Ex-MBA 2011-2014 Semester -1 Subject: Technology in Business ------------------------------------------------- VIDEO CONFERENCING – A BOON TO COMPANIES TO REDUCE COSTS, TIME AND SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT Completed By, Shantesh Varik Roll No: 2011G14 INTRODUCTION – Aim and Objective Videoconferencing is a virtual conference like setup using a number of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. Videoconferencing is slightly different from videophone calls as it is designed to serve a conference rather than individuals. In a tight economy, with companies spending much less on IT, the tech giants will take growth wherever they can find it. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Cisco and HP are in a pitched battle for customers for their high-end teleconferencing systems. According to the report, it's "one of the few technologies that has benefited from the downturn, growing 30% from last year as businesses look to reduce travel expenses." Cisco, HP, Nortel, and telepresence-focused players like Teleris have developed impressive, beautiful systems that make you feel like you're in the same room with your colleagues. The catch is that not only will you save money, but you'll also reduce your environmental footprint through reduced travel. These companies are cashing in on the business world's pressing need to cut costs, while also appealing to the desire to get green...
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...and then “Obtaining Permissions.” Explicit permission from Academic Press is not required to reproduce a maximum of two figures or tables from an Academic Press chapter in another scientific or research publication provided that the material has not been credited to another source and that full credit to the Academic Press chapter is given. Academic Press An imprint of Elsevier Science 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA http://www.academicpress.com Academic Press 84 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8RR, UK http://www.academicpress.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ellis, Juanita. Convergence of voice, video, and data networks / Juanita Ellis, Charles Pursell, Joy Rahman. p. cm. ISBN 0-12-236542-9 1. Convergence (Telecommunication) I. Pursell, Charles. II. Rahman, Joy. III. Title. TK5101.E48 2003 384.3¢3—dc21 International Standard Book Number: 0-12-236542-9 PRINTED IN...
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...quickly body ages. Exercise is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful ways to improve health. Exercise also slows down the rate of aging itself, providing perhaps the closest example of a real life fountain of youth as we will ever find. Research shows that regular physical activity can help reduce your risk for several diseases and health conditions and improve overall quality of life. Regular physical activity can help to protect from the following health problems. * Heart Disease and Stroke. Daily physical activity can help prevent heart disease and stroke by strengthening the heart muscle, lowering blood pressure, raising high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels (good cholesterol) and lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels (bad cholesterol), improving blood flow, and increasing heart's working capacity. Optimizing each of these factors can provide additional benefits of decreasing the risk for other vascular disease. Inactive people have almost double the risk of having a heart attack compared with those who are regularly physically active. * High Blood Pressure. Regular physical activity can reduce blood pressure in those with high blood pressure levels. Physical activity reduces body fat, which is associated with high blood pressure. It can also help to prevent high blood pressure from developing. High blood pressure is one of the risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Regular physical activity — at least 30 to 60 minutes most days of the week — can lower...
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...VoIP CIS 175 Telephony no longer requires a telephone with voice over IP (VoIP), a means for using the computer to transmit and receive the voice just as a telephone has been doing for a century. Some companies are shifting from PBX systems to VoIP systems, but there are a number of concerns raised by these systems that prevent many companies from making the switch, including cost considerations and issues related to the adoption of standards. VoIP has several advantages. It consolidates the voice/data network infrastructure; allows easier moves, adds, and changes to the system; and can consolidate interoffice voice traffic onto a wide area network, thus replacing off premises lines and tie lines provided by telecommunications companies. VoIP also allows easier integration of voice for call centers and other applications (Mitchell 50). Observers also note that there are a number of problems implementing VoIP, including the fact that installation costs are the same or more than for a PBX while the systems in use still lack many features found in PBXs; analog integration can be problematic; consultants with the required voice and data experience are in short supply; and standards for powering phones over Ethernet, such as call control protocols, are still evolving (Mitchell 50). A recent report on VoIP suggests that businesses might be able to cut their telecoms operating costs by half by switching to a VoIP network. The report was published by Cambridge based...
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...Cultural Revolution teach us about class structure and struggle under socialism? The Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution[1] was a political and ideological struggle spanning the decade from 1966-1976. More implicitly, it was a struggle spurned into motion by Mao Zedong to reinstitute his mass line and turn China back to the ‘Socialist Road.’ Mao urged the Chinese to undergo a ‘class struggle’ whereby those truly on the path to Communism would rise against the new bureaucracy who were implementing ideology inconsistent with the main tenets of Maoism. However, what ensued was catastrophic and referred to by Feng Jicai as “Ten Years of Madness.”[2] While the class structure of post-revolutionary Chinese society had effectively eradicated the feudal class structure, a new, elite bureaucratic class had emerged. Indeed, these new elite and the remnants of the old bourgeois class bore the brunt of the violent onslaught of Mao’s Red Guards during the CR. In this essay, I argue that class struggle, and struggle under socialism in the CR was paradoxical as “most radicals in the revolutionary campaign against revisionism were representatives not of the proletariat…but of the bourgeoisie itself.”[3] While many joined Mao in is his crusade for utilitarian reasons, many also joined seeking to revenge ill-treatment and denigration at the hands of the elite due to their ‘bad class backgrounds.’ Furthermore, this period demonstrates through the factional plight of the Red Guards and the persecution...
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...Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Part One Project Organizations, Management, and the Networked Enterprise 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today 2 Global E-Business: How Businesses Use Information Systems 38 Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy 80 Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems 124 Analyzing Business Processes for an Enterprise System 165 Part Two Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Part Two Project Information Technology Infrastructure 167 IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies 168 Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management 222 Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology 260 Securing Information Systems 312 Creating a New Internet Business 351 Part Three Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Part Three Project Key System Applications for the Digital Age 353 Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications 354 E-Commerce: Digital Markets, Digital Goods 388 Managing Knowledge 428 Enhancing Decision Making 470 Designing an Enterprise Information Portal 508 Part Four Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Part Four Project Building and Managing Systems 509 Building Systems 510 Project Management: Establishing the Business Value of Systems and Managing Change 552 Managing Global Systems 592 Redesigning Business Processes for Healthlite Yogurt Company 629 International Case Study 631 Your Digital Portfolio 645 References R 1 Glossary...
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...MGT3110 Business and Society MODULE HANDBOOK 2013-2014 Module Leader (London): Dr. Andrea Werner Module Tutor (Dubai): Mr. Kieran Ross Middlesex University Dubai Business School Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION AND MODULE SUMMARY.............................................................3 Module aims .................................................................................................................3 Contacts .......................................................................................................................3 Module Website on MyUniHub .....................................................................................3 Learning Outcomes ......................................................................................................4 Assessment Scheme ...................................................................................................4 Employability Skills.......................................................................................................4 Code of Conduct ..........................................................................................................5 2. LEARNING MATERIALS ............................................................................................6 3. TIMETABLE AND TEACHING PROGRAMME ...........................................................8 Lecture and Seminar Schedule.................................................................................... 8 Lectures...
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...Emory University | Internetworking Technology Handbook | [Type the document subtitle] | | SAVIOUR EMMANUEL UDOBONG | [Pick the date] | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Internetworking Basics An internetwork is a collection of individual networks, connected by intermediate networking devices, that functions as a single large network. Internetworking refers to the industry, products, and procedures that meet the challenge of creating and administering internetworks. The following articles provide information about internetworking basics: * Internetworking Basics * Introduction to LAN Protocols * Introduction to WAN Technologies * Bridging and Switching Basics * Routing Basics * Network Management Basics * Open System Interconnection Protocols LAN Technologies A LAN is a high-speed data network that covers a relatively small geographic area. It typically connects workstations, personal computers, printers, servers, and other devices. LANs offer computer users many advantages, including shared access to devices and applications, file exchange between connected users, and communication between users via electronic mail and other applications. The following articles provide information different LAN technologies: * Ethernet...
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...Neuron Perspective Children, Wired: For Better and for Worse Daphne Bavelier,1,* C. Shawn Green,2 and Matthew W.G. Dye3 of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 3Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA *Correspondence: daphne@bcs.rochester.edu DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.035 2Department 1Department Children encounter technology constantly at home and in school. Television, DVDs, video games, the Internet, and smart phones all play a formative role in children’s development. The term ‘‘technology’’ subsumes a large variety of somewhat independent items, and it is no surprise that current research indicates causes for both optimism and concern depending upon the content of the technology, the context in which the technology immerses the user, and the user’s developmental stage. Furthermore, because the field is still in its infancy, results can be surprising: video games designed to be reasonably mindless result in widespread enhancements of various abilities, acting, we will argue, as exemplary learning tools. Counterintuitive outcomes like these, besides being practically relevant, challenge and eventually lead to refinement of theories concerning fundamental principles of brain plasticity and learning. Introduction It is Monday morning at 7:58 a.m....
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...hours: TR 10:50am - 12:30pm. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Amanda Beck Office address: 325 Bigood E-mail address: aebeck@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-0149 Office hours: R 9:30am – 11:00am. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Xianjing (Jasmine) Bordere Office address: 325 Bidgood E-mail address: xbordere@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-0149 Office hours: T 9:15am – 11:00am. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Ben Commerford Office address: 329 Bidgood E-mail address: bpcommerford@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-0150 Office hours: MW 3:30pm – 4:45pm. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Don Minyard Office address: 365 Alston E-mail address: dminyard@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-2911 Office hours: TR 12:45pm - 1:30pm and T 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Kyle Peel Office address: 325 Bidgood E-mail address: rkpeel@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-0149 Office hours: TR 7:00am – 8:00am. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Jordan Rippy Office address: 325 Bidgood E-mail address: jarippy@crimson.ua.edu Phone number: 348-0149 Office hours: MW 10:45am - 12:00pm. Other times by appointment. Required text: Phillips, Libby, and Libby, Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, 4th edition, 2013, McGraw-Hill Irwin, hardcopy or loose-leaf or e-book option. Also, you will need a Pass Code for Connect, the online...
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...measures the effectiveness of Human Resource Management Strategy’ Performance Management is considered as “the number one strategic initiative for companies today” according to David Blansfield, publisher of Business Finance Magazine (2002, p.1). Performance Management (PM) is a common tool in today’s organizations. In fact, in a survey taking into account 1,200 organizations, 95% declared to use a formal performance evaluation system (Stoskopf, 2002). Therefore, PM is seen as one of the most important HRM functions, if not the most important. For instance, some companies saved millions thanks to it, like the South Dakota Department of Transportation, in using SAS for PM (Leidholt, 2008). This highlights a new trend: companies, such as SAS, specialized in PM and that sell their knowledge to organizations looking for more profit. Also, PM softwares are now common on the market. For example, Hyperion is a global leader in business performance management software and its success is easily understandable when considering that more than 79% of the 600 executives surveyed by Hyperion “reported that they rely on business performance management software to help them manage through the challenging economic climate” (Business Finance Magazine, p.1). All these elements show us the importance of PM. We will first have an overview of what PM is, then explore how it is related to other HRM functions, then determine the critics and limitations of PM, and finally find ways to improve PM. ...
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...Securing Cisco Routers (SECR) Glossary A AAA ABEND Access Access attacks Authentication, Authorization, Accounting. Allows all facets of user security to be defined on a central server. Abnormal END. Abnormal termination of software. 1.) In dealing with network security it is an all-encompassing term that refers to unauthorized data manipulation, system access, or privileged escalation. An all-encompassing term that refers to unauthorized data manipulation, system access, or privileged escalation. Unauthorized data retrieval is simply reading, writing, copying, or moving files that are not intended to be accessible to the intruder. Limiting the flow of information from the resources of a system to only the authorized persons or systems in the network. See ACE. access control Access Control Entry access control list See ACL. access device access layer Access Method Hardware component used in your signaling controller system: access server or mux. The point at which local end users are allowed into the network. 1.) Generally, the way in which network devices access the network medium. 2.) Software within an SNA processor that controls the flow of information through a network. Defines access rights and privileges for the network users. The access policy should provide guidelines for connecting external networks, connecting devices to a network, and adding new software to systems. The remote computer system which connects a personal computer to the Internet. Access Virtual...
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...PowerShell for the IT Administrator, Part 1 Student Lab Manual (v1.1) Microsoft | Services © 2012 Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Confidential ITOE Educate Conditions and Terms of Use Microsoft Confidential - For Internal Use Only This training package is proprietary and confidential, and is intended only for uses described in the training materials. Content and software is provided to you under a Non-Disclosure Agreement and cannot be distributed. Copying or disclosing all or any portion of the content and/or software included in such packages is strictly prohibited. The contents of this package are for informational and training purposes only and are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Training package content, including URLs and other Internet Web site references, is subject to change without notice. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, the content should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. Unless otherwise noted, the companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted herein are fictitious, and no association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, e-mail address...
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