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Research Problem/Question: The researchers had based their research on the argument that violent especially shooting video games have become most important leisure activity among youth. With the increasing praise for such games in media and public, these games have stimulated aggressive behavior and feelings of inattention towards friends and family as the users have perceived these animated characters as social beings and they are not actively involved in social activities. Apart from enjoyment and stimulation of aggressive behavior, youths feel no wrong in killing; rather they enjoy playing these games. However, very little research has been done to assess ...

Premiership Football Club buys storage solution to store, access and share critical information

Various sporting institutions have increasing needs for systems that can safely keep the players’ information and data. Arsenal Football Club is not left behind. The club needs a solution that can keep all the players’ information and analysis data protected. This is what compelled the club to install two of Buffalo’s TeraStation ES Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. The decision was arrived at after a thorough investigation of all the storage solutions. The club also purchased eight MiniStation hard drives with hardware encryption. This was to be used by the football analysis team, the medical staff and the coaches.
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The researchers of this study sought to examine the relationship between heavy drinking and the consequences on undergraduate females and their living environment. The four types of environments considered were: residential learning communities RLC) and non-residential learning communities and same sex and coed environments. The negative consequences young women experienced were described as hangovers, embarrassment, blackouts, missing class and sexual harassment (Boyd et al 2008).
This study is part of a long term longitudinal study. A random sample of 2,502 first year students was selected, representing both RLC and non RLC environments and single sex or ...

You know the day will not be a smooth one when you see your boss’ car parked in your spot, when you, as usually, arrive earlier at work. The book “The Goal” gravitates around the life and work of Alex Rogo, a Plant Manager within Uniware, part of UniCo company. Alex is a career oriented person, who tries to find a balance between his challenging work and his family life. As he follows two goals at the same time, he fails in both.
In the beginning of the book, readers find out that Alex’s plant is facing some troubles. Although he ...

Lately, Microsoft board of directors has experienced various oppositions from dissenting ideas on the strategies used by the management to run the company. In August 2013, Steve Ballmer who was the chief executive officer of the company announced his intentions of stepping down and in February 2014 Satya Nadella took over as the chief executive officer. However, the efforts of Ballmer towards saving the company have not been successful as it is clear that Satya took over a company that is stumbling ("Should Apple Buy Microsoft?"). For instance, some products such as Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and ...

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Mayer, J., Wilson, R., and M. Hazlewood. “Personal Intelligence Expressed: A Multiple Case Study of Business Leaders.” Imagination, Cognition and Personality 30(2): 201-224.

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This article acknowledges the wealth of intelligences that can lead to success in many different areas of life, focusing on the ways in which personal intelligence (PI) can influence life expressions. Defined as “the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans and life experience,” PI can increase one’s interest in one’s own personality, and the personalities of others, inspire the creation ...

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Article One: New Consoles on the Way, but Gaming Isn't the Same
Physical and console sellers form a significant value as it regards sales that entail stock. In this case, they make approximately thirteen percent of all the sales made in a year. However, this trend does not come from the blues; it originates from efforts garnered by console sellers. However the case, their activities are frequently hurdled by the existence of arising instances of overstocking. It is in response to this that research has been developed, and efforts towards curbing such instances have been placed in the scope so ...

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The independent variable was the color information while the dependent variable was attention attraction. Both variables are of nominal level, i.e. the variation of color information or attraction of attention does not vary upon the change of the color or the person to whom they attract attention.
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The research was subjective, especially in treating RTs (reaction times) above 1500 ms as misses and 300 ms as anticipatory. There is no proper control or a basis upon which the researcher sets this criterion of exclusion. Besides, there is no background check of the participant to analyze if they ...

The deliberate hostile activity to cause physical harm or mass killing of a targeted population in places like schools, workplaces, places of worship, public gathering is a Hybrid Targeted Violence (HTV). The places of gathering where people have least option to shield themselves are the preferred locations for an HTV action. The weapons used in this kind of violence may be the conventional firearms or other explosive devices. These incidents of atrocity have multi-threat, and often go against the conventional procedural strategies of the relevant agencies of public safety to initiate a rescue or counter the violence. The initial moments are very ...

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H.R 308 is a bill introduced into the 114th Congress on March 01, 2015 by Congressman Trent Franks. The aim of the bill is to prohibit gambling on property near Glendale, Arizona owned by the Tohono O’odham Nation and held in trust by the United States. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that should the Bill be passed into law, the Tohono O’odham Nation would pursue litigation. Should the federal government have to pay compensation, it might have to pay in excess of $1billion. The CBO has based its estimate of the likely compensation on the fact ...

The Lie is a short story written by T.C Boyle and published on May 20th 2010.The story is based on the character who found himself on the wrong side with lies after he had his sick days off and wanted more days off and in the process, the habit persisted, it became clear that he was becoming addicted to lies with time as “the small issue’ became intense. The next day he was supposed to report to work but instead he called his employer Mr Radko and explained to him of his baby’s sudden sickness and therefore wanted some ...

There have been discussions from various sets of people on the possibilities on whether media violence causes aggression or not. This has been a topic that has been covered by researchers, psychologists, media pundits and other scholars on trying to determine the extent that media violence has on the aggression of people. Some people agree with the fact that media violence has a direct influence on the amount of aggression that people possess. They believe that media violence is the cause of aggressive and violent behavior. This has been supported by some of the facts that they possess from various researches ...