* 6 INFORMATION AND DATA * 7 DATA STRUCTURE * 8 DATA CHECKING * 9 DATA PORTABILITY * 10 DATA NETWORKS * 11 INTERNET, INTRANET AND WWW * 12 TRANSMISSION, BACKUP, TELECONFERENCING * 13 APPLICATIONS * 14 SOFTWARE PACKAGES * 15 VIRTUAL REALITY IN TRAINING, ENTERTAINMENT * 16 COMPUTERS IN CONTROL (REAL TIME) * 17 ON-LINE SERVICES * 18 SECURITY AND PRIVACY OF DATA * 19 HEALTH AND SOCIAL ISSUES * 20 EMPLOYMENT * 21 ICT IN MUSIC, LEISURE, ENTERTAINMENT | -------------------------------------------------
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a growing need among today's marketers to better understand their customer's attitudes and feelings toward the company's products, services, and delivery systems. Some researchers view "attitude" as a derived composite outcome of the interaction between a person's beliefs (i.e., cognitive thoughts) and expressed emotions (i.e., affective feelings) regarding those beliefs. Knowing these interactions can be helpful in predicting a person's behavior (i.e., conative action). Not all researchers accept
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games. A study of surgeons who do microsurgery in Boston found that those who played video games were twenty-seven percent faster and made thirty-seven percent fewer errors than those who didn’t. Vision is also improved, particularly telling the difference between shades of grey. This is useful for driving at night, piloting a plane or reading x-rays. Games also benefit a variety of brain functions, including decision-making. People who play action-based games make decision twenty-five percent faster
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transferring a successful business model overseas. Tesco reportedly spent a decade preparing for the launch of its Fresh & Easy chain on the West coast of America, with its top executives even spending time living with Californian families to observe the way they lived and ate. Yet six years after it opened, it announced it was pulling out - costing the firm a hefty £1.2bn. Similarly one of the world's best known brands, US giant Starbucks, was forced to close almost three quarters of its shops in Australia
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different way. The results from the different questionnaires clearly showed that visual communication not only provided a quicker way for people to view and understand a message than text as it has a global understanding of a message, but it was also a global preference for most individuals to perceive a similar message. Thus the results of the findings can conclude that visual communication is efficient due to its possibility of communicating a message Internationally, and to its way of providing
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The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford Preface to the Electronic Version: This text was originally composed by computer game designer Chris Crawford in 1982. When searching for literature on the nature of gaming and its relationship to narrative in 1997, Prof. Sue Peabody learned of The Art of Computer Game Design, which was then long out of print. Prof. Peabody requested Mr. Crawford's permission to publish an electronic version of the text on the World Wide Web so that it would be available
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easily send a text or leave a voicemail? The excessive use of social networking has truly distorted the meaning of intimate human connectivity and changed our daily interactions. This has created the need for individuals to find a healthy balance between their online and offline worlds. What is Social Media? The term “social media” is used often in this day and age. We tend to use it everyday, it is a major factor in our lives, and yet, a clear definition of the term does not exist. What
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vast world that is by turns kind and cruel, and gazing at the immense heavens above, people have always asked a multitude of questions: How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? How does the universe behave? What is the nature of reality? Where did all this come from? Did the universe need a creator? Most of us do not spend most of our time worrying about these questions, but almost all of us
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Sensory Marketing Sample of perfumes [ Smell ] Music (in Zara – club music) [ Sound ] * Subliminal Messaging : Subliminal stimuli (pronounced /sʌbˈlɪmɨnəl/, literally "below threshold"), contrary to supraliminal stimuli or "above threshold", are any sensory stimuli below an individual's absolute threshold for conscious perception. Visual stimuli may be quickly flashed before an individual may process them, or flashed and then masked, thereby interrupting the processing. Audio stimuli may be played
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privileged to be living in this time, to be born right on the precipice of the greatest paradigm shift in human history, the only thing that approaches the importance of that reality is finding like minds that realize the same, and being able to make some connection with them. If these books have influenced you the same way that they have us, we invite your contact at the email addresses listed below. Enjoy, Michael Beight, piman_314@yahoo.com Steven Reddell, cronyx@gmail.com Here are some new
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