...PROJECT #1 ANSWERS 1. (a) How does the job of supervisor or first-line manager differ from that of a higher manager? (b) How does the job of a top manager [executives] differ from those of the several levels of middle managers? (4 points each) (a) The first-line supervisor or manager is unique - manages only non-managers, has the shortest-range viewpoint, and the best understanding of the technology of his group. As the level of the manager increases, the manager will deal with longer-range concerns and need more conceptual/strategic skills. (b) Top managers are responsible for the future of the company and normally have no full time managers above them (except the Board of Directors or other elected persons). Their decisions bear on a longer time span and have a greater financial impact. 2. Under what conditions might each of the following structures of departmentalization be desirable: functional, geographic, customer, product and process? (8 points) Functional departmentation is common with smaller organizations, where only one manager skilled in each function can be afforded, and is also used at various levels in almost any organization. Geographic departmentalization is desirable where regional differences make regional coordination between functions necessary; with modern communication it is seldom justified simply because of distance. Customer departmentalization is best use when adapting to customer differences and requirements is essential, such as in the...
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...Victoria’s Secret Change Management Process Christopher Brown ISCOM/472 May 20, 2013 Valorie Howard Victoria’s Secret Change Management Victoria’s Secret’s main market is the lingerie industry however; the specific categories for retail include Victoria Secret’s stores, Victoria Secrets beauty products and Victoria’s Secret lingerie catalog. The organization use the supply chain to gain competitive advantage within the retail industry and still considering three categories of improvement such as cycle time, quality, and cost concerns and developments. Cycle time measures the amount of time according to the unit using minutes and customer hours adding and subtracting one from another will not provide an average value (Tooling University, 2011). Quality reduces variation of processes surrounding targets to include goals, objectives, mission, and organizations vision eliminating faults, failures, and satisfying customer expectations (Shsu Ed, 2011). Demand media Inc. (2011) says “cost basis is defined as the amount of money originally put into investments before any growth or loss” (pg 1. para 1.). The three categories of improvement enhance business productivity though facilitate challenges such as cycle time step is not a stand alone use to calculate lead time. The business must know the work in process to calculate cycle times. The many dimensions to quality and customer perception of quality are a factor to determine what is important in...
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...PROJECT #1 ANSWERS 1. (a) How does the job of supervisor or first-line manager differ from that of a higher manager? (b) How does the job of a top manager [executives] differ from those of the several levels of middle managers? (4 points each) (a) The first-line supervisor or manager is unique - manages only non-managers, has the shortest-range viewpoint, and the best understanding of the technology of his group. As the level of the manager increases, the manager will deal with longer-range concerns and need more conceptual/strategic skills. (b) Top managers are responsible for the future of the company and normally have no full time managers above them (except the Board of Directors or other elected persons). Their decisions bear on a longer time span and have a greater financial impact. 2. Under what conditions might each of the following structures of departmentalization be desirable: functional, geographic, customer, product and process? (8 points) Functional departmentation is common with smaller organizations, where only one manager skilled in each function can be afforded, and is also used at various levels in almost any organization. Geographic departmentalization is desirable where regional differences make regional coordination between functions necessary; with modern communication it is seldom justified simply because of distance. Customer departmentalization is best use when adapting to customer differences and requirements is essential, such as in the...
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...ENG. 111 Area 51: Alien testing facility? Area 51 is located near the town of Rachel, Nevada; Groom Lake surrounds the base (Strickland). To enter Area 51 you need a top secret clearance, a need to know, and an invitation by the upper most ranks of the CIA (Jacobsen xi-3). The majority of employees travel to Area 51 on unmarked aircraft from Las Vegas (Strickland). The U.S. government has never officially admitted to the existence of Area 51 (Jacobsen xi-3). This fuels the Alien controversies surrounding Area 51; theorists believe the government has aliens and alien aircraft on site (Strickland). Have aliens visited Earth? It is possible but unlikely that aliens are at Area 51. The majority of conspiracy theorists believe aliens crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, on July 2, 1947 (Soodin). The UFO wreckage and three aliens were retrieved by the US military and sent to Area 51 for research. Lieutenant Walter Haut, a public relations officer at Roswell Army Air Field, claims to have seen the UFO and the alien bodies (“Roswell Theory”). He describes the aliens as having enormous heads and being approximately three and half feet tall. General William Blanchard wrote an official statement saying the Army had recovered UFO remains on the 8th of July, 1947 (Strickland). According to Haut there was a second crash site where more wreckage was recovered. This is why the U.S Army gave the first statement to take the attention away from the more significant site (“Roswell Theory”). ...
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...The steganographic system embeds secret content in a cover media and makes it unremarkable for the eavesdropper. Earlier people used invisible ink or hidden tattoos to transmit steganographic content. The information embedding process in a steganographic system starts by identifying the redundant bits of the cover medium. The embedding process results in a stego medium by replacing the redundant bit of the cover medium with the data of the secret message. The main aim of using such a technique is to make the secret message undetectable to the unauthorized users. There is one more technique used to cipher the existence of the secret message which is cryptography. Cryptography scrambles a message so that it cannot be understood whereas steganography is a technique that is used to hide the secret message so that it is undetectable by the unintended users. Basically, the purpose of cryptography and steganography is to provide secret communication. Steganography can be used to cloak hidden messages in image, audio, video and even text files. The two most common methods used for hiding information inside a picture, audio and video files are LSB (Least Significant Bit) and Injection. In this paper, audio medium is used for steganography and a modified LSB algorithm is used to embed the secret...
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...With in a month Roosevelt had a team of researchers working on nuclear weapons before Germany and Japan could make their. The Manhattan project is an industrial complex in New Mexico; thousands of the West’s...
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...Agency Structure Miatika Carter Strayer University 505 Public Budgeting and Finance Dr. Keller October 27, 2012 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Agency In determining where each agency lies in the administrative structure of the federal government the United States Agencies involved in the administrative structure of the federal government were the military departments such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Army corps of engineers developed strategies to restores and protects the Nation’s water resources through studies of potential projects involving some construction of projects. Working with other Federal agencies the Corps helps communities respond and recover from floods and other natural disasters just like FEMA in case of emergencies. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considered independent agency because it is an establishment created by Congress to address concerns that go beyond the scope of ordinary legislation. These agencies are responsible for keeping the government and economy running smoothly (Headquarters). Environmental Protection Agency There is the Environmental Protection Agency involved in protecting the human health, the environment as well as it is an agency established in the executive branch as an independent agency. As part of a government efforts to reduce spending are done mostly through support of funding to reduce water infrastructure earmarks as well as others that would help to fund the United States. United States Fish and Wildlife...
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...Prototype System with Paillier Threshold Cryptosystem Web Services Version 1.00 A project submitted to the Faculty of Graduate School, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Engineering in Software Engineering Department of Computer Science Prepared by Hakan Evecek CS701 Dr. Chow Spring 2007 This project for the Masters of Engineering in Software Engineer degree by Hakan Evecek has been approved for the Department of Computer Science By _______________________________________________________ Dr. C. Edward Chow, Chair _______________________________________________________ Dr. Richard Weiner _______________________________________________________ Dr. Xiaobo Zhou Date Table of Contents Online E-Voting System Project Documentation 4 Abstract 6 1. Introduction 7 2. E-Voting System Related Literature 9 2.1. Public Key Cryptography 9 2.2. Homomorphic Encryption 10 2.3. Zero Knowledge Proofs 10 2.4. Threshold Cryptography 10 2.5. Cryptographic Voting Protocol 11 2.6. Issues in secure e-voting system 12 2.7. Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) 13 2.8. Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) 14 3. Online E-Voting System Project Description 17 3.1. Paillier Threshold Crytosystem Web Services Architecture and Design...
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...| Administrative Controls | | | Administrative controls are basically directives from the senior management that provide the essential framework for the organizations security infrastructure. Administrative controls consist of the procedures that are implemented to define the roles, responsibilities, policies and various administrative functions that are required to manage the control environment as well as necessary to oversee and manage the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the organizations information assets. Administrative controls can range from very specific to very broad and can vary depending on the organizational needs, particular industry, and legal implications. Administrative controls can generally be broken down into six major categories which include operational policies and procedures, personnel security, evaluation, and clearances, security policies, monitoring, user management, and privilege management. Ultimately, the senior management within an organization must decide what role security will play within the organization and define the security goals and directives. Due care by definition is the care that an ordinary and reasonable person would take over their own property or information. An example of this would for a person to place documents that contain sensitive information such as social security cards, passports, etc. in a locked safe within their home. This measure is taken to ensure that only those individuals with authorized...
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...bomb was known as "Little Boy", a uranium gun-type bomb that exploded with about thirteen kilotons of force. Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, a twenty one kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.”(Atomic Heritage Foundation, 2012) This paper will discuss the creation and use of the first two atomic bombs. Early in 1939, German physicists had learned the secrets of splitting a uranium atom. Fears soon spread over the possibility of Nazi scientists utilizing that energy to produce a bomb capable of unspeakable destruction. Scientists Albert Einstein, who fled Nazi persecution, and Enrico Fermi, who escaped Fascist Italy, were now living in the United States. They agreed that President Franklin Roosevelt, must be informed of the dangers of atomic technology in the hands of the Axis powers. In late 1941, the American started to design and build an atomic bomb, which later received its code name, the Manhattan Project, which was named after one of the initial sites of research, Columbia University in Manhattan, New York. Nuclear facilities were built at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington. The main assembly plant was built at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Robert Oppenheimer and Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves was put in charge of putting the pieces together at Los Alamos. After the final bill was tallied, nearly $2 billion had been spent on research and development of...
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...The Manhattan Project was morally incorrect, and may have seemed like it was for good cause, but ultimately lead to violence and death. The intentions were to end the war, but it did much more than that. Causing over 150,000 deaths and many more injuries. It all started when nuclear scientists in Germany discovered the secret to splitting the uranium atom. This enabled weapons of mass destruction to be made, but first scientists needed to learn how to harness the power of the splitting of the atom, and convert it into a destructive force. Nazi Germany was first to start research on creating a bomb capable of destroying whole cities. Word got out, and the U.S. government knew they had to finish creating a bomb before Germany or else it could...
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...Project MKUltra The CIA or The Central Intelligence Agency was founded on September 18th, 1947. Throughout the decades that the agency has been active, they have engaged in many classified and sometimes illegal projects. One of the CIA’s activities that was disclosed to the public was Project MKUltra. Project MKUltra took place between 1953 and 1964. The base idea for this project was to test the effects of different types of drugs on the human body, and it monitors the ability to control people's thoughts and actions based on the effects of the drugs. Everything that the CIA performed while the project was underway was completed in secret. There was over 120 human experiments that took place, and prisoners of war were commonly practiced upon. The subjects were locked in solitary hospital rooms to monitor the effects of the numerous drugs that had been administered. There were hundreds of drugs conducted during the eleven years the project took place. Although there countless drugs used, it was narrowed down to seven that showed the most effects: MDMA (ecstasy), mescaline, heroin, barbiturates, methamphetamine, psilocybin (“magic mushrooms”), and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)....
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...Automated Election System Does automation = clean elections? Possible Problems: Preliminary Results Technical Briefing What is the AES? l “A system using appropriate technology which has been demonstrated in the voting, counting, consolidating, canvassing, and transmission of election result, and other electoral process” process” Public perception of the AES It would lead to clean elections l Cheating would be impossible in an automated election l AES System l Election Management System (EMS) Configuration of precinct data l Election Mark– Up Language (EML) Mark– l l Precinct– Precinct–Count Optical Scan (PCOS) System l Precinct Machine BOC Computer l Consolidation / Canvassing System (CCS) l PCOS Machine SMARTMATIC AUTOMATED ELECTION SYSTEM (SAES 1800) SAES 1800 lPrecinct Count Optical Scan / Optical Mark Reader (OMR) • Detects the absence or presence of a mark in predefined positions on a form SAES 1800 Components RF Key Thermal Printer •2-1/4 inch roll paper •Rated to last 5 years Digital Scanner •4-bit mono – color scanner •16 shades of gray Processor And Memory Not Specified Compact Flash (CF) Card Input / Output Ports •CF Card Reader •UTP Ethernet Port •Disabled USB •RJ – 11 Modem Port Ballot Box Cast and Return •Buttons Disabled Display • Touch screen, mono-color display •Quarter VGA in size, 320x240 pixels Ballot Boxes with Transparent Panels Compartments the Ballot Box in Transparent Panels ...
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...actions and words. As the government changed its story repeatedly, the theorists became increasingly agitated and felt that they were right in assuming that the government was hiding something. The government would tell the public that the debris was nothing more than a crashed weather balloon, but the change to declaring the debris a secret damaged the government’s reputation. Since people were already on edge against possible cover ups because of the Kennedy Assassination, actions such as changing the story, later caused an apprehensive public to further distrust the official story from the government. With much of the information on Roswell later declared secret, retrieving information from the government has been difficult. Using the Freedom of Information Act, some of the information on what happened at Roswell has been revealed, but not enough to infer what truly happened as much of the reports are still blacked out. Theorists use this as proof that extraterrestrials have made contact, but the government has not revealed it to the public. Sceptics confront them with the idea that it could be new military aircraft that needs to remain secret, but theorists are not very open to new ideas that place humans as the creators. The government did use the UFO craze to mask the testing of new aircraft, such as the stealth planes when the technology became available. The idea that aliens did visit firmly planted in the minds of some researchers, caused researchers to make any information...
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...The Manhattan Project, the program behind the development of the first nuclear weapons, affected the world greatly in many ways. The Manhattan Project was a secret, $2 billion project created by the U.S. The project was so secretive that only 6 of the scientists knew the nature of the manhattan project; Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Harold Urey. The people working on it were forbidden to speak about anything involving this, military security guarded the grounds, and the communications in and out were monitored. In 1939, the U.S. was warned that Nazi scientists had split an atom and could use that to build an atomic bomb. The U.S. started the top-secret program known as the manhattan project, it was named this after the Manhattan Engineering district of the War Department which was where it began....
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