the science of measuring and statistically analyzing biological data. This scientific measuring tool is mostly used in identifying individuals whether anatomical or physiological. While fingerprinting is probably one of the oldest and most common forms of biometrics, other forms can include but are not limited to iris scans, voice recognition, palm prints, and facial recognition. As of late, the FBI, being a leader in the latest biometric technology, has created with the help of the science and
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Customer Clusters as Sources of Innovation-Based Competitive Advantage Vishal Bindroo, Babu John Mariadoss, and Rajani Ganesh Pillai ABSTRACT The authors examine the effect of customer clusters on a firm’s innovation. They argue that knowledge leveraged from customer clusters can help the firm develop innovations. The authors specifically concentrate on the effect of a firm’s geographical proximity and diversity of customer clusters on innovation outcomes. In addition to showing the importance
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A Critical Review of ‘Strategy as Stretch and Leverage’ Academics argue a lot on strategic approaches that a company should make to gain competitiveness advantages over its competitors. Hamel and Prahalad (1993) challenge the traditional way and come up with ‘stretch’ and ‘leverage’ concepts to exhibit a whole new way to run a company. This essay aims to give a critical review of this article in the wider debate, theoretical underpinnings and main strengths and weaknesses. There are so
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“Genius,” Thomas Edison famously said, “is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” He would have found a kindred spirit in Elif Bilgin, 16, of Istanbul, Turkey, winner of the 2013 $50,000 Science in Action award, part of the third annual Google Science Fair. The award honors a project that can make a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge; it should be innovative, easy to put into action and reproducible in other communities. Bilgin spent
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in the state of New York. The next major project being considered is the Nanotechnology Center at the SUNY IT campus to provide for both academic experience and commercial research and development studies. According to Nano.gov, nanotechnology is “science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers.” Why is nanotechnology
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COURSE STRUCTURE CLASS X First Term Units I. II. III. IV Chemical Substances World of living Effects of Current Natural Resources Total Marks : 90 Marks 33 21 29 07 90 Theme : Materials Unit : Chemical Substances - Nature and Behaviour (30 Periods) Chemical reactions : Chemical Equation, Balanced chemical equation, implications of a balanced chemical equation, types of chemical reactions : combination, decomposition, displacement, double displacement, precipitation, neutralization, oxidation
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productive when used in class. According to NJ News report a teacher at Christopher Columbus School No. 15 used the fidgets as a learning tool in the class. She had the students to compare which ‘Fidget Spinners’ spinned the longest and fastest in science class, this experiment taught the student to work together cooperatively as a composite unit to solve a scientific problem. Also it taught the older student how to teach younger students how to do problem-solving. As well as all of the students in
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Nuclear Medicine Brenda L. Clark Argosy University Contemporary Applications of the Sciences Module 4 Assignment 2 Dr. Frankin Barrish Nuclear medicine is being used to help fight diseases as well as being able to take Images of an individual’s body (News Medical, 2015). The radioactive substance works with the nuclear medicine and this is important because it aids with looking inside the opaque human body (News Medical, 2015). Within this paper you will read how the technical and scientific
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Conclusion Advanced electronics and computer technology has undoubtedly revolutionized the way engineering sciences and technologies are effectively transferred globally in the shortest amount of time possible. These resources benefit those countries with competitive advantages in labor resources and are producing a variety of goods for the world markets. The engineering academic community currently has access to a wide range of material on the internet. This has led to an explosion
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Tarran Stubbs 12I Family Life Mini Career Research The Career i Choose To Pursue Is Software Engineering. Computer software engineers apply the principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and the systems that enable computers to perform their many applications.Software engineers analyze user needs and design, construct, and maintain general computer applications software or specialized
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