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Ireland, China, and ICT

reforming the state owned IT enterprises as well as encouraging a range of research and development in the areas of software and i...

Technology, Design, and Condoms

(b), 2004). One of the ways in which this has been prevented is through vulcanization of the material, a chemical curing process (...

Warfare and Developments in Medical Evacuation

Not all of the technological developments we have witnessed in war have been positive from a medical standpoint. While in the ear...

Forensic Science and DNA Testing

RFLP is no smaller than a quarter, while with PCR Analysis the sample can be no bigger than a few skin cells. This seemingly insi...

Tourist Industry and eTourism

means, such as hyperlinks. The information could include the location of restaurants, tube stations or other transport facil...

Manuel Castells' IT Theory Evaluation

internet is the centre of communications and social function for society from social communications to the conducting of commerce....

Ireland and China's ICT Industries

the same time, when choosing an environment in which to do business, it pays to look at the industries in both nations as well as ...

Processes of Risk Management and Risk Assessment

One of the factors separating physical and IT projects is that in producing a building (or bridge, or airplane) everyone knows at ...

Comparison of 'Declaration of a Heretic' by Rifkin and 'The Existential Pleasures of Engineering' by Florman

order for work to be appropriately "subdivided into highly specialised, routine tasks."3 As enthusiastic as Florman (1996) is a...

Uninsured Issues for Metropolitan Hospital Center of New York II

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

Development of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems

who needs to be able to "talk" to his computer (Gallant, 1989). Gallant was writing in 1989, and there are more systems available...

Five Questions on Harvard Monsanto Case Study Answered

problems" (Barton and Pisano, 1993, p. 4). As Schneiderman said, if Monsanto was to be a world leader, they had to do great scienc...

Computer Technology and Effective Educator Communications

use in todays business environment, all of which are appropriate to specific sets of circumstances. The business environment is t...

2 Articles on Classroom Technology Management Summarized

Starr offers numerous suggestions for managing technology in the classroom (2004). Some of these suggestions are: * Always practic...

Legal Challenges Brought About by E-Commerce

hours a day regardless of weather conditions or customers state of dress (i.e., the customer can shop at midnight in his pajamas)....

Investment Target Selection

company, but it is likely that IBM will be able to attain growth at lease equal to that of last year Figure 1 provides a view of ...

Daily Life and the Impact of Wireless Technology

In the earlier days the networks were voice orientated. However, today the networks are far more complex, with the use of satellit...

Electronic Commerce and Technology

a site with lots of graphics or large interfaces, if the consumer is likely to have little more than a 56K modem line (which is es...

Marine Vessel Diesel Engines and Selective Catalytic Reduction

have the edge on other more expensive technologies. The Problem: Emissions Most large engines, such as exist in marine vessels...

Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

of the marketplace by big business (Bittlingmayer, 2002). Catanzaro (2000) accuses President Richard Nixon of using antitrust law ...

Thermal Imaging, Satellite Surveillance, and Privacy Issues

areas in the picture appearing lighter and colder areas appearing as dark areas (Colbridge, 2001). The question of whether or no...

Software and Hardware Overview of Intel's Hyper Threading Technology

for hyper-threading technology the operating system will interpret the processor as two processors, one is the physical process wi...

Issues Investigation and Genetic Engineering

1990 the U.S.D.A. had approved almost one-hundred test plantings of genetically altered crops (Nash, 1990). It has been a slow pro...

Commercial Market for MP3 Players

Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) (MP3-Mac, 2004). MPEG being short for Moving Picture Experts Group (MP3-Mac, 2004). In 1989 Frau...

Marshall Islands and the Significance of the Outrigger Canoe

Islands are indeed impressive. Traditionally they were made of breadfruit logs using only the most primitive of tools, tools like...

An Analysis on an Article About Caring and Science

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

British Gas Services Organization and Economic Environment

of a business like this, where some calls may require a rapid response, whilst others are less urgent and can be booked a long way...

Online Trading and the Infrastructure of Technology

been successful in achieving its goals in this regard. Network Protocol Now an "old" technology, Transmission Control Proto...

Competitive Advantage and Technology

and Millar (1985) noted some 20 years ago that information technology ends up creating a competitive advantage by offering the bus...

Effective Educator Computer Technology Communications Annotated Bibliography

technology" (Ebersole and Vorndam, 2002). The researchers found "time, resources, and lack of confidence in the benefit of educat...