Essays on Anonymity

Howard’s text has significantly explored the definition and depiction of cyber-crime. It has swiftly combined theoretical work, substantial research, and first-hand experience in driving the point home. The analysis wades through the growth and development of organized crime using objective mechanisms. The text is reader-friendly and successfully guides students in grasping the various dimensions of organized crime. However, with the advent of technology leading to the growth of organized cyber-criminal groups, there is room for refining the description provided by this enumerative text (Abadinsky, 2012). After a critical evaluation of the text’s definition, this paper discusses the ...

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POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE

Southern Institute of Technology 2016

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Section 1. Introduction 4 1.1 Purpose of the proposal 4 1.2 Research Aim 4 1.3 Research Questions and Objectives 4 1.4 Research hypothesis 5 1.5 Background and overview of business 5

Section 2. Literature Review 6

2.1 Introduction 6 2.2 Micro and Macro-Economic Indicators and Business Confidence 6 2.3 Recent Trends, Strategies and the Market Potential 7 2.4 Consumer Preferences 8 2.5 Conclusion 9

Section 3: Methodology 9

3.1 Introduction 9 3.2 Secondary Research Method – Literature Review 9 3.3 Case Study 10 3.3.1. Research Design 10 3.2.2. The Sample 11 3.2.3. The Process 11 3.5 ...

Executive Summary

Luxury Swap is an innovative web-based product exchange service. Modeled on e-bay's exchange program, Luxury Swap introduces an unparalleled service in KSA, first, and hopes to expand into GCC, East Europe, North America and world at large. The service connects upper class / sellers, who have unneeded luxury products, and middle class/ buyers, who, although having rising disposable income, cannot afford to purchase luxury products at retail prices. This report is made up of five sections: (1) Service Information, (2). PEST Analysis & SWOT Analysis, (3) Strategic Marketing Objectives, (4) Market Segmentation & Positioning and (5) Four Ps Strategies and (6) ...

The emergence of digital currencies and their rapid expansion into international financial markets and the lives of common people has been nothing but a substantial shake-up for the global financial sector. These digital or virtual currencies, often known as cryptocurrencies, employ cryptography to secure and authenticate transactions, as well as to administer the creation of new units. Today, both youngsters and older people know the Bitcoin benefits and Ethereum features: they are decentralized and operate on a peer-to-peer network, giving users more independence and near-absolute anonymity.

In recent years, digital currencies have grown in popularity, and their use has spread beyond ...

Qualitative Research

Brief Description The interview was conducted among two people on the topic “Interpretation of the migration crisis”, which turned to be quite challenging due to the sensitiveness of the topic. First of all, it was problematic to find participants, as the majority thought that the answers may affect their social or professional life, even though I made it clear that the participation is anonymous. Secondly, one of the respondents refused to continue answering the questions in the middle of the interview without explaining the reasons. However, as this option was discussed before the interview, it did not affect the ...

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Summary of Business Research

Over the years, financial institutions have faced a lot of risk including financial loss e.g. customer defaulting as well as the channeling of resources in projects or initiatives that make them loose their valuable resources and probably don’t add value to their organization (McNeil, Frey, & Embrechts, 2015). The effects of these risks have made the financial institutions fail to achieve their objectives and decrease in performance as well as maintain their market share. The end results show that the organization is not able to sustain its capabilities. The study is to investigate the effects of risk management on ...

Final Quiz

Psychology Explain the differences of qualitative study design and quantitative study design. The difference in design between the qualitative and quantitative study is that the qualitative design encompasses an exploratory research where both structured and unstructured methods in data collection is employed. On the other hand, the quantitative design relies on numerical data in quantifying a given problem in which statistical methods are employed in interpreting the data.

There are several tools being used in conducting research, but the common tool observed in all studies is the use of measurement.

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of qualitative study design and quantitative study design.

Qualitative research encompasses an advantage in terms of giving ...

Cadbury Strategic Ambiguity

In 2009, Cadbury introduced a new advertisement where two school children made their eyebrows move to music. The advertisement was part of Cadbury’s strategy of preparing creative content for the company and capturing the attention of the audience. The advertisement is considered vague and strange as it does not make it clear why the students are moving their eyebrows or if eating Cadbury eggs is making their eyebrows move. The play on anonymity is the ultimate of the advertisement and makes the audience watch the whole ad for its creativity. The audience keeps guessing the reason for the ...

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Introduction

U.S. schools are known for low performance on international tests which measure 15-year-old students’ literacy in science, math, and reading. According to the 2007 report, the United States ranked 29th in science among 57 countries participating in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Gonzalez and Kuenzi, 2012, p. 9; McFarlane, 2013, p. 39). The problems with school attainment were linked with students’ reduced interest in science and instructional approaches to science teaching (McFarlane, 2013, p. 39). In this regard the gaps highlighted administrators’ ineffective practices and teachers’ quality problem, which was ...

Introduction

Customers and businesses have realized that flexibility in communication is among the best ways of reaching out to each other. The need for improved relations has contributed to organizations changing the way they do business in efforts to accommodate interactive platforms for responding to customer inquiries in real time. Online marketing is key to promoting effectiveness and efficiencies of how goods and services are offered to customers in ways to improve brand and customer loyalty. Among the major benefits offered by online marketing is the ability to easily reach out to global markets without incurring many costs in advertisements ...

Introduction

Modern technologies make it possible to communicate interactively with other people all around the globe, despite distances and time zones-related differences. Nowadays the Internet has already become a ‘background part’ of everyday life, penetrating a variety of communication-related areas, such as work, entrepreneurship and interpersonal relations. Instant messaging and self-reporting are especially important for modern children, who perceive these phenomena for granted, along with telephones and TV sets (Kraut et al. 1017-1018) Moreover, the Internet significantly increased cooperation opportunities for colleagues, living in different cities and countries, brought together the representatives of different cultures (e.g., via special interest groups) ...

Introduction

Specific Information and communication technologies including the internet has significantly changed the way economic transactions occur (Niranjanamurthy, 2014, p. 670). Online shopping has become a modern day concept for customers all over the world. It has made shopping more effortless; prices can be compared and customers can review products and services before a purchase decision is reached (ALraja and Aref, 2015, p. 913). The online consumer behavior has now become a major research area for both psychologists and information technology scholars with most research areas being an analysis of how consumers become adopted to the use of online stores. ...

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Does there exist a difference in depression symptoms in men and women? What factors contribute to this difference, for instance, social and economic factors? Can the factors contributing to this difference be controlled? The study will be based on the hypothesis, men are more prone to depression in comparison to women. The null hypothesis for the study is, there does not exist any relationship between depression symptoms and gender of people experiencing these symptoms (Gonzalez, 2016). The study will randomly select participants of different ages with at least 40 participants being between the ages of 20 and 30 and ...

The proliferation of the internet and the ubiquity of the smartphone have resulted in people being able to access the internet anytime and anywhere. Today most public places like shopping malls provide Wi-Fi services for customers to access the internet. Most cellular services now come with data services as well. In fact, most people now prefer to use their smartphone for internet access instead of investing in computers and broadband connection . From banking transactions to reading newspapers, everything is now done online. Another phenomenon that has been growing steadily over the years is the use of social media over ...

A partnership is a written agreement that shows the duties of each partner and how income will be distributed. There are many reasons for forming a partnership. One is additional capital. You may not want to go thru the hassle and regulations of incorporating, so you find someone(s) with needs matching your own. Another is access to credit markets. Forming a partnership shows you are serious about the business where operating as a sole proprietor could be interpreted as just a hobby. A third is the lack of skills needed to be successful. Each partner adds something of ...

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Introduction With the growing numbers of motor vehicle in every city, it is evident that people are getting more reliant on private vehicles when it comes to meeting their travelling needs. One of the cities or location that holds this situation is Kuwait, from which more and more people depend on their private vehicles as they claim that it is more reliable to drive or ride on their private cars than to take the city’s public transport. While the public transport in Kuwait aims to provide better service to their people, there are still many citizens who do ...

Introduction

Ethical matters in healthcare represent one of the major disciplines which revolve around making sure that healthcare policy-makers, personnel, lawyers, researchers and other internal and external stakeholders concerned with any healthcare element conduct their professional obligations in a manner that is ethically and morally acceptable. The consensus is almost impossible in the case of ethical concerns regardless of the efforts being put in place. There are different ethical principles which are recognized all over the healthcare world; some fundamental principles include, fair treatment of all health services beneficiaries, respect to human life, dignified treatment and support of patient’s ...

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The Impact of Social Media on Teenagers Prospectus Social media is a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly popular during last time, especially among young people. It is an issue that separates the points of view, as some people regard it as being an amazing phenomenon, but others are worried about its influence on the lives of people. There are several factors that are necessary to discuss, speaking about pros and cons of social media impact on the teenagers, such as self-development and creativity, health and wellness, anonymity and easiness of communication in social networks, business and study development of ...

Introduction

The current explosion in the number of technologies that are available as relating to the dissemination and management of information has made it increasingly easy to access information. At the centre of this is the evolution of the internet or World Wide Web which has made it possible to interconnect different peoples from around the world in a manner that geographical boundaries seem non-existent and the exchange of information seamless. This development has made the privacy of individuals, groups of people or firms a growing concern. In fact, a number of these entities - individuals, groups of people or ...

How anti-money laundering compliance with regard to hawala based in Dubai with customers in all continents in the world should be conducted.

Introduction

Hawala is a system of transferring money from one country to another using a trust-based network and alternative modes of exchanging value for value (Levy, 2016). Immigrants working in a foreign country who want to send money to their families in their home country usually use this system (Pathak, 2003). A sender gives a hawala broker or hawaladar the money for remittance. The broker provides the sender with some kind of code for the recipient to get ...

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The use of information technology in the matter of justice provision has enabled the law enforcement agencies to ensure that the criminals are effectively captured and put behind bars. The technological tools that have notably contributed towards the cause are surveillance and cameras, forensic equipment for detection of criminals and communication means. These technology items have helped in making the law supreme and to make the criminals afraid of the law. Gun control has been made possible largely with the help of these technology tools as the people are being monitored and managed much more effectively with ...

Nowadays, Internet has become firmly established in the life of the society as a global information system. Being present in practically every home, Internet has considerably expanded the opportunities in the process of information search and exchange, communication between people, especially the so-called social networking sites or social media, which are very popular among people of all ages, especially among children and teenagers. Communication plays an important role for the development of the individual at each age stage, but for young people communication and interpersonal relations are a vital factor in the formation of their personality. The special role ...

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Study Overview Dissertation title: Managing Safety from the Top: The Influence of Senior Managers’ Characteristics Purpose: Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen The description of senior managers by literature manager is that they are crucially influencing the safety of organization. Yet it has not been completely understood, their influence is contributed by. Thus, the thought was to investigating characteristics of senior managers with respect to their impact toward safety in management organizations in the air traffic. A safety literature review indicated that research in the area would gain from introduction of ...

On October 9, 2012 two Taliban gunmen boarded the school bus that Malala Yousafzai was on. After asking which of the students was Malala, they proceeded to fire three shots at her. One of the bullets hit the side of her forehead and traveled along the length of her face before going through her shoulder (Schifrin, 2013). Since the attack Malala Yousafzai has become a prominent international advocate for educational equality for men and women. This paper will look at her life and her impact on the world. The reason for the Taliban attack on Malala was a blog ...

Bitcoin is a form of digital currency held and created electronically. It is a cryptocurrency hence it is unregulated, unlike fiat money. The transactions of Bitcoin are recorded in a Blockchain, which represents a public ledger of all Bitcoin transactions in the world. Bitcoin works as a regular currency and is used to make transactions based on the monetary value of the item. Blockchain is used to keep a record of the transactions done to offer a clear and precise paper trail of how the wealth has changed hand (Swan, 2015). Bitcoin was started by Satoshi Nakamoto, who proposed ...

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The paper offers a valuable discussion of cyber bullying, including a precise definition and factors leading to an increase in the number of victims affected by cyber bullying. It further provides information about various methods of cyber bullying through which bullies pelt their victims. The paper lists revenge, lack of awareness of harm, perception of cyber bullying as fun and boredom as possible reasons that motivate bullies to inflict pain in victims. It presents statistical numbers of cyber bullying cases and describes the consequences faced by victims. The paper asserts the role of parents in minimizing cyber bullying and ...

The technological advancements have resulted in changes in which the journalists broadcast the news to the populace. The New York Times is one of the newspapers that took total advantage of the digital platform and it increased its accessibility. Studies showed that 60%-80% of the people all over the world accessed the newspaper monthly via the digital platform (Boczkowski, Pablo, 77). There was no difference in the total wordings used between the print media and the cyber times articles. The Cyber Time’s editors had credibility in the stories and they were also reliable. Nonetheless, the technology part ...

Introduction

The make-up of the canon of the New Testament (NT) was influenced by numerous factors. People should understand that the formation of the NT canon did not take place abruptly. Instead, the development of the NT canon was a lengthy process, which comprises of hundreds of years towards its development. For a long period, there has been a misconception that a council come together and made decisions concerning the books that will be included in the Bible and those that will be left out. Contrariwise, the formation and development of the NT canon were an evolutionary process that constituted ...

Thematic analysis refers to the process of identifying data, analyzing it and at the same time reporting the patterns that are found within it. It looks into detail several research aspects in a topic. Thematic analysis is a useful and a flexible research tool that is potentially used to get a detailed and rich but a very complex data. This method is very explicit and is majorly used in analyzing data because of its flexibility. Thematic analysis generally is carried out after some research has been conducted in form of interviews and the data recorded to allow for the analysis to take ...

The internet has become a sore spot for many after it has been continuously romanticized as a corner to practice freedom of speech. Many libertarians as well as communitarians have been amazed and bothered by the alluring and unstoppable combination of law barriers and the sophisticated technology that has become of the internet today. This very alluring combination ensures that millions and millions are drawn to the internet every day. Lawmakers have just the same furthered, the ‘monstrosity’ by fighting for, and passing the of the Communication Decency act that allows the providers of the internet services to allow all sorts ...