Essays on Scanning

Operating Environment:

Hardware: Laptop or Desktop Computers Software: Windows 8.1 Professional Description: This section deals with updating anti-virus definition files, configuring real-time scanning, full system scanning, fast or quick scanning for high vulnerability areas of the system, removable media scanning, and reviewing scan results in a Windows 8.1 system. Notes, Warnings, & Restrictions: Windows Defender is a sensitive utility used to perform system security tasks. Please exercise caution when using it.

Resources (Further Reading):

https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/definitions/adl.aspx http://www.thewindowsclub.com/update-windows-defender-manually-windows-8 Procedures: Update Anti-Virus Definition Files This procedure guides the user on how to update anti-virus definition files on a system running Windows 8.1. Search for Windows Defender from Start ...

Quality Assessment

Scanning technology (3D laser scanner technique) measures the dimension of a precast concrete panel using extraction algorithms to measure boundary points with a compensation model to increase measurement accuracy (Kim et al., 2013). 3D laser scanning converts CAD models into BIM, which identifies scanned objects by ensuring precision for rebar mapping before actual drilling as well as rebar detailing for installing rebar cages (Hajian & Brandow, 2012). Before shipping precast concrete elements, dimensional quality assurance (DQA) is carried out to ensure that there are no dimensional defects using a scanner in an automated process that saves time and labor input ( ...

MEMORANDUM

Re: Proposed changes in the marketing strategies. Recommendation: Avail the opportunities optimistically and with sustainability. Increase market share of Bakery Segment. For Dinner segment, come up with innovative ideas for the food items, ambiance of restaurants, and services in the restaurants. Come up with new and unique food menus frequently. Opportunities Available Panera Bread (PB) designs its strategy in such way that its brand becomes the best for selling fresh bread. Panera Bread is also popular as a casual restaurant with fast food. It provides high-quality food in a distinctive dining environment. The company managed to design extensive differentiation ...

Raman spectroscopy is dependent on scattering of light. When light interacts with matter, energy exchange can take place through absorption, simulated emission, Raman scattering or spontaneous emission. In Raman scattering, the emitted photons have less energy and lower frequency in comparison with the absorbed photons. Some energy of the emitted photons is transferred to the molecules. Raman spectroscopy is a method which collects the chemical fingerprints associated with molecules. Every molecule has different levels of vibrational energy and the emitted photons experience shift in their wavelengths. The wavelength shifts are collected,examined and analyzed for sample identification. Raman spectroscopy ...

Imaginary Clinic

The clinic is a general practice clinic. It provides person-centred, progressive as well as comprehensive whole-person health care to persons and families in their society. It encompasses the foundations of an efficient health care system (“Capterra” par.1).

Branches of the Clinic

The clinic is a stand-alone clinic. However, satellite offices will be opened in different towns within a year in an attempt to reach more people (“Capterra” par.1). The clinic has four physicians and 7 physician extenders. That is, four nurse practitioners and three physician assistants. More physicians and physician extenders will be recruited as time goes. The new physicians will be sent ...

Management

Q1 The learning organization is an organizational structure or the culture which gives the importance to the learning, innovation and taking risks relating to the prospects of the business. The main advantage of the learning organization is that it provides the chance to generate profits as the first movers in the market. The changes and improvements in the technology are forcing the organizations to focus on the studies of the employees to maximize the competitive advantage. (Silberman, 2013) Q2 The Mintzberg’s Modes of Strategic Decision Making describes the strategic approaches of the business. In the Entrepreneurial mode, the ...

CT scanning is a medical process that uses accurate x-rays in medical imaging of organs inside the body. The process is fast, accurate and can detect internal injuries, diseases, and hemorrhage. CT scanning involves producing images in different planes including 3-D, which can then be observed on a computer screen, in print or copied to a DVD. This method is more favorable than traditional x-rays because it is more detailed and can be easily manipulated by a physician. CT scanning provides excellent details of internal body organs, bones, soft body tissues, and blood vessels. CT scans can diagnose conditions ...

Introduction

Networks and computer systems are imperative to establishments in the present age. They have managed to simplify sending and receiving of information and colossal data processing over very short time periods. However, they are always facing threats and attacks from hackers. Dangers to the computing environment, network, and the database comes from everywhere. In such a high stake facility, it is critical to ensure that the main threats are identified and mitigated. The major threats can come from three areas: the physical installation, the users, and malicious attacks. The five top threats to the new network will be the ...

Information Security Governance and Risk Management

This is the foundational domain for professional information security work (Walsh). It provides standards and policies for monitoring information security programs. The domain ensures data quality necessary to support an organization’s objectives. This is critical especially to sensitive and critical information that an organization uses. Risk management is the identification and prioritization of all risks to confidentiality. The most important step in the domain is risk analysis. This involves identification of threats and vulnerabilities on applications and systems. The last phase in the domain is the implementation of the most appropriate and cost-effective security measures and controls to ...

Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) refers to a computerized system used to store fingerprint images. Typically, investigators feed new print images into AFIS to identify the best matches. Accordingly, the identification process allows investigators to narrow their search parameters. Usually, AFIS technicians perform the final analyses of retrieved images to maintain accuracy. Prior to the computerization of such systems, the process of comparing fingerprint images was tedious and sometimes inaccurate. The development of AFIS, however, allowed technicians to perform comparisons within minutes and achieve a relatively higher accuracy of image identification.

Creation of Fingerprint Images

Fingerprints appear as a series of darkened lines ...

Introduction

Barcode scanning technology operates based on the symbology principle; which defines the barcode, determines the interpretation as well as the mapping of the encoded data or information (Kato, Tan & Chai, 2010) The encoding enables the scanning gadget to know when a character or digit starts and the moment it stops; in the same way as binary interpretation. Barcodes are usually an array of lines organized in a parallel and alternated (black and white) manner. Barcode scanning technology offers a cheap and simple way of recording information or data in various applications.

Purpose

Initially used in labeling train cars or locomotives, ...

Technology uses & applications

Adobe Products: CAD (www.adobe.com )

What is it? How do you use it?

CAD is Computer Aided Design that turns flat static images into robust dynamic 3D graphics. CAD allows the creation and sharing of complex imaging. It allows the user to illustrate his or her design so that others have a greater understanding of its potential.

Why is it important?

CAD allows viewing the images in the free version of Adobe Reader software so that multiple people can see the images without requiring specialized programs. It allows the user to create 3D images to better illustrate the working relationship between the components such as in a new braking system for an ...

PPQ Parts Strategic Plan

Introduction: Environmental Scanning Environmental scanning is defined as the watchful and diligent monitoring of a company’s internal and external settings. It opposes to the concept of ‘surveillance’, which is restricted to a focused goal or a particular sector (Black's Law Online Legal Dictionary). The early detection of both threats and opportunities is crucial to underpin a company’s strategic planning. Such growth is unlikely to be supported by its United States operations, where its 5,000-person workforce is employed. Management acknowledges such fact and has determined that new international facilities will be necessary. Furthermore, a high level of ...

Part 1

Information gathering is a significant part of the hacking process given that it presents the hacker with the crucial information and knowledge about the target organization. Foot printing and port scanning are some of the initial stages and processes of hacking. Foot printing entails all the processes of information gathering about the target organization (Lyon, 2009). Hackers use different methods and source of information to collect crucial information about the target organization. Some of the sources of information include; the target organization’s website, company directories, Google hacking, alternative websites, social engineering and USENETS. The information gathered through foot ...

Viruses, Worms, and Spyware

Computer virus is a type of malicious software that can make copies of itself and interfere into the code of other programs, system memory, boot sectors, as well as distribute their copies on a variety of communication channels, with the aim of disrupting software and hardware, deleting files, bringing useless data allocation structures, blocking the user experience or the destruction of computer hardware systems (Rittinghouse, Ransome 88).

Viruses can be divided into several types based on the principal of its functioning:

Trojans - received such name in honor of the "Trojan horse", because they have a similar principle. This type of virus is replicating its modules withing modules of programs that are being ...

(Tutor’s Name) (Assignment)

Introduction Traditional policing is reactive and action is initiated when crimes or problems are reported. In contrast, community policing is characterized by shifting of focus from crime and law enforcement to finding solutions to community problems like “perceptions of disorder, fear of crime, quality of life and neighborhood conditions” (Kappeler and Gaines 1). The ideal form of community policing empowers the community and, decisions on courses of action are taken in consultation with the community members. The police have to take up additional roles as advisors, facilitators and lead-initiators. They become service providers by escalating ...

Explaining scanning a document for older generation, who is not “on first name basis” with computer technologies.

What you need: A computer/notebook with a program Abbyy FineReader installed; A working scanner that is connected to the computer/notebook; Turn on the scanner and the computer. Give them a minute, for the scanner usually needs time to warm up; Carefully open the scanner lid. Place you document inside the scanner, facing downwards. With no sharp moves, close the lid. Open the program Abbyy FineReader Tools window on your PC. A preliminary version of your scanning document will pop up. In this window, you can change the parameters of the document; for example, color, resolution, and perimeter – by adjusting ...

This system administration manual was created for those who works with Microsoft Windows 8.1 and perform general administrative tasks. In fact, this paper consists of two parts. The first one includes technical procedures and the second part is mainly about user and group administration.

Technical System Administration Procedures

System Restore Point System Restore Point is one of the most important feature of the system security. Administrators often face with this issue. Thus, there are several simple steps for creating and using restore point for Windows 8.1. In order to create it, click on Start, then choose Control Panel, click on System and Security ...

Introduction

Environmental analysis is one of the most essential strategic tools, which is used in contemporary strategic and operational management. Among other issues, its primary purpose is identification of the internal and external components, which may potentially affect business performance of a company. One of the key ideas behind this analysis is assessment of different threats and opportunities looming on the company horizon. The data, which is collected with help of environmental scanning, is subsequently turned into the basis for decision-making. The practice shows that the today’s markets are dynamically evolving (Nag, Hambrick & Chen, 2007) . Every day brings a ...

Moonshine! Is an app that is new on the market that aims to make planning a night out easy by alerting its users of when nearby bars and restaurants open and close. The Moonshine! App works by allowing the user to enter their location using a phone’s GPS system, from here, the app provides three main points of information including: which bars are open in the users vicinity; how far away the bars are from the users current location in both distance and in walking time; and of course, how long the selected bars are open, whilst featuring ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Nightlife Hospital, a leading health facility in the United States seeks a capital expenditure justification for the purchase of an MRI machine. This design of the machine will utilize the current technology so as to ensure best services to the customers. The machine will solve the current problems caused by referring patients to other hospitals and waiting for test results in before treating them. The machine should meet the demand by patients for better and more comfortable scanning operations. It should also be cheap, sustainable, and safe for the patients and the clinicians. The best MRI machine the ...

RFID stands for Radio-frequency identification (“What is RFID?” par. 1). It is a technology that uses electromagnetic fields to identify and track the tags that are attached to the objects. RFID technology can be extremely useful in managing memorabilia inventory at Hard Rock Café. It can allow the café to track their inventory without human intervention that makes it the ideal technology in the environments where reading of barcodes could be difficult. Since the Hard Rock café has the huge amount of memorabilia inventory, they can take assistance from RFID technology that eliminates the need for labor-intensive tag reading ...

Executive Summary

An in-depth analysis of the New Zealand’s auto industry reflects that establishment of an auto parts business focusing on the import and supply of all parts of Japanese made cars will be successful in the country. New Zealand greatly relies on used car imports from Japan to meet the local need for higher ownership levels. The planned venture will be located in Auckland, New Zealand. It proposes to import auto parts of Toyota and Nissan in the initial phase of market positioning. In the entry phase, the organization will particularly try to meet the needs of Toyota and ...

According to Miller, Hess, and Orthmann (2013), a majority of community problems often affect a targeted population or geographical location. In this regard, this trend calls for the need to implement a similar problem-solving tactic, one that focuses primarily on the affected region or population. This concept is managed through application of the SARA Model, an acronym that stands for Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment. The application of this tactic assists in managing problems in a logical and sequential manner, hence increasing chances of success in solving the issue at hand. This paper will apply SARA as a problem-solving ...

1) Download a copy of Kali Linux from this site: https://www.kali.org/downloads/ *Grab the correct version for your computer and virtual machine 2) After you have setup your VM with the following parameters – 2 CPUs, 2048MB ram, 20GB HD, and let networking as the default, link the Kali ISO and start the VM. 3) Install the distribution if you like or you can run it as a live drive. (Hint—if you run it as a live drive you will need to hand write your results as the live version will not save results for you) 4) First—open the ...

Abstract

This examination paper acknowledges the spectacular diversity of reproductive adaptations for survival of various categories of land plants. It describes a typical life cycle of a land plant that reproduces via spores. It also identifies the different parts of Plant organs and their functions such as cell organelles, parts of a land plant, and epidermal cells. A microscope is an important tool for examination of biological specimens, including cell’s internal structures called organelle and is important in magnifying the focused area. Plants are classified into four main groups, namely, ferns, mosses, flowering and confers. This paper finds that ...

Background

As a fast-growing medical research and development company, nothing is more important to Information Assurance Research than the security of the company’s proprietary information and customer and employee data. I am concerned that the company’s sensitive information stored at Reston Virginia and the data conveyed via the WAN is not well protected from web-based application attackers. My proposal is based on research on various web-based applications security software in different online fora. I have also explored various studies on different security software and their effectiveness as well as affordability. My insight has also been drawn from customer ...

Introduction

Heart valve surgery is used for the repairing or replacement of valves of the heart that are diseased. The patients receive general anesthesia in this type of surgery whereby the surgeon makes a large surgical incision in the breastbone. The incision is meant to enable the surgeon to reach the aorta and the heart (Kato Paragraph 2). The relevance of stroke to the procedure of open-chest valve surgery is that it is one of the risks associated with cardiac surgery. Other risks include death, failure of the kidneys, cardiac arrest, irregular beats of the heart, and post-pericardiotomy syndrome (Kato ...

What are the physicians trying to accomplish through buying the same EHR product at their hospital? What are the pros and cons?

Why are the physicians not able to send a medication order to the hospital from their e-prescribing device?

Physicians are unable to send medication orders to the hospital from their electronic prescribing devices because the devices don’t work with the clinical pharmacy. They are able to send prescriptions to major pharmacies excluding smaller ones. This is an example of the reason for not rushing to buy systems before making sure they are compatible. It leads to double spending and wastage of resources and time. The can still use the electronic prescribing devices in future, ...

Introduction

There are different perspectives that are being peddled concerning fracture processes, this has led to confusion on what actually this term means. In this review, a deeper understanding is sort by analyzing different aspects of the nomenclature of the fracture process. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the failure processes several aspects are put in consideration key among them will be discussed below and include; the energy of fracture, macroscopic structure path and microscopic fracture mechanisms.

Energy to Break

The toughness of a material is the measure of the absorbed energy during and before fracture. The toughness of the material ...

Introduction.3

Project Goals and Objectives..3

Transaction Processor.4

Price and Inventory File..5

Inventory Management5

Communications..6

Documentation.6

Alpha test.6 Beta test6 Start Rollout.7 Actual Project Costs and Cash Flow7 Timeframe and Timeline..8 Resourcing Allocation and Rationale..8

Perceived Benefits8

Assumptions9 Risk Assessment..9 References..10 1.0 Introduction. Universal Retail Corporation (URC) is an active player in the growing electronic gadgets market, and it plans to open a chain of retail outlets to further its growth in the market and combat the growing competitive threat from online purchases (Colophon, 2014). URC is designed to have a sale and stock control system for its proposed chain of retail outlets across Australia. The organization provides ...

The invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope, in 1982 resulted in the emergence of a whole new category of microscopic techniques. All these techniques fall under the family of probe microscopy, which basically involves the interaction of a sample with the sharp tip of a probe at distances of the order of a few μm to a few nm. The atomic force microscope (AFM) is one such scanning probe microscope that builds an image that describes the surface topology of a sample based on the atomic forces of interaction between the tip of the probe and the sample surface. ...

The problem of terrorism is one of the most dangerous and prevalent in today's society. Over the past decade, the actions of terrorist organizations have reached a new level. The attacks occur more often, while it becomes more and more difficult to find the perpetrators of the attacks. Terrorism has become a global problem, and it threatens more and more people with each passing day. The US government and a number of leading European countries introduce various technical and design elaborations to combat international terrorism. Today it is possible to prevent the increasing number of terrorist attacks by means ...

Introduction

The question that comes to mind is what is Trojan horse? Trojan horse is stated to be a malicious program that looks harmless however, it is used to hack into people’s computers. The term Trojan horse is derived from Trojan War a Greek mythology (Christensson, 2006). The myth talks about the wooden horse that was pulled by the people from Troy. The legend claims that inside the horse there were Greek soldiers in it who emerged at night and seized the city. This fact can be observed from the program where a person installs the application unaware that ...

Introduction

MacJob is a loose term used to refer to the low paying as well as low prestige jobs that do not demand high skills and has little chance of career growth and advancement. Notably, the term was coined from the fast food giant MacDonald. As such, the term does not take into account the type of employer but the fact that the job is low paying and requires little-specialized skills. Owing to the emergence of technology, these types of jobs are highly growing and replacing the skilled labor across all the industries due to low costs involved in hiring ...

What are the three main lessons that you learned from Creativity Inc.? Try for a thoughtful explanation that relates to your studies and your work experiences so far. The work of Ed Catmull together with Amy Wallace titled Creativity Inc. (2014) encompasses new insights about the creativity in business. The book offers interesting and important lessons that can be useful for anyone studying or professionally engaged in the field of business management. First lesson taken away from the book is learning the importance of collaboration. Catmull mentioned that the primary characteristic of a creative and healthy organizational culture is ...

No, any flourishing company can continue into existence and grow at the same time without having extremely well-researched and well-articulated goals and strategies. Even with a company that has come up with a solid proof plan, such a company must also continuously evaluate its effectiveness based on the external environmental changes. Use of a market check tool which helps with this evaluation is what is referred to as environmental scanning. Within this process of environmental scanning, executives and employees assist in gathering, analyzing and sharing of information for strategic purposes. Environmental scanning is one of the key activities that ...

Every person wants to have and live in a peaceful community, a place with no threats of violence. One of the known causes of violence in many communities is the gang violence. There are many evidence showing that problems pertaining to gangs are proliferating different small and large cities across the country. Which is why establishing an anti-gang program is an important approach in order to address the associated problems with gang in the communities. The purpose of this writing is to design an anti-gang program based on the essential components proposed by either a state or federal program ...

Occupational and Environmental Health in Carbon Nano-Tube Thread Manufacturing

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) have novel physicochemical properties accompanied by new risks and uncertainties (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work [EU-OSHA], 2009). CNT release into environment and worker exposure can occur during any stage of production, usage, transport, waste treatment or storage. Data on occupational exposure to CNT is limited, and measurement techniques are also not fully developed. Engineering controls and personal protective equipment used for aerosol pollution are recommended for CNT also. Though CNTs have a primary graphene structure, their properties are entirely different from carbon particles, for which there are established exposure limits. CNT emissions are ...

Scanning electron microscope uses a beam of electrons to form images that reveal the topography and composition of a body. Before being focused on the object, incident electrons have high amounts of kinetic energy. Incident electrons interact with the surface of the specimen, and this interaction is determined by the rate of the acceleration of the incident electrons. Energetic electrons are usually released from the surface of the sample when the incident electrons come into contact with it. The interaction results in the formation of scatter patterns that interpret into the shape, composition, size, and texture of the specimen. ...

‘Informatics: Where Is It?’

Reflection on ‘Informatics: Where Is It?’ The article “Informatics: Where Is It” by Linda Thede is a provocative insight over the efforts required in the modern day nursing systems to ensure better integration between information technology and services to ensure maximum efficiency and benefit to the patients. The evolution of the application of Informatics into nursing is well explained as it was conceived as an idea to ensure minimum errors and maximum automation to provide better efficiency in services. The evolution of informatics into nursing has gone a long way from EMR to fully automated patient record systems which ...

Abstract

Three Dimensional (3-D) scanning is a critical image analysis technology that presents images of an object in three dimensional models and facilitates manufacturing of tangible models. 3-D scanning is used in health care such as image analysis of the artificial teeth and 3-D scanning for surgical purposes. 3-D scanning is used for image analysis of player’s realistic movements and incorporates it to visual 3-D representation of games. In the modern times, 3-D scanning technology is developing in the market. The worldwide sales of three dimensional scanners have increased with the unit sales growth of about 171.4 % for the ...

Abstract

Biometric access control systems employ the use of biometrics in the identification of the user before granting access to an otherwise restricted area. The technology involves the automated mechanisms of recognizing or verifying the identity of a living organism using a behavioral or a physiological attribute. It presents various features and advantages that place it above the other access control systems. Biometric access control not only provides access control features, but it also provides user management features. The system used different behavioral and physical attributes as biometric characteristics for identification and verification. Testing of individual components of the system ...

A strategic plan is a management tool that assists the purpose of helping a company do a better job. The main reason is that strategic plan enables a company to achieve long-term success by enhancing teamwork and sharing mission (Peterson, Jaret & Schenck 2011, ch. 15., p 287). The strategic plan of the University of Edinburgh 2012-2016 has both strengths and weaknesses. One of the main strengths of the plan is that it identifies a clear vision to communicate to stakeholders. As it identified that organization is committed to excellence in education, research and innovation. In addition, the strategic plan ...

Impact of Engineering Design

The proposed design has implications at a global level. Firstly, the Microsoft’s Kinect system has formed the basis for the continued evolution of scanning technologies. For instance, Hardesty (2015) reported algorithms that exploited the polarization of light to improve the depth sensing of the Microsoft’s Kinect system by a thousand fold. One of the challenges identified by Tong et al., (2012) regarding the Microsoft’s Kinect system was that it achieved a coarse depth. However, the combination of the depth frames from the Microsoft’s Kinect system for polarized photographs shows that Microsoft’s Kinect systems have ...