Essays on Entropy

Information Security Threats

Introduction Information is one of the most important assets for many organizations, as it acts as a differentiator and provides a competitive advantage. Loss of information such as patent information, proprietary processes, or trade secrets could prove to be very detrimental to a business. While there are many threats to the information security, this report focuses on three of them, which are 1) Denial of service, 2) Privilege escalation, and 3) Backdoor. This report provides measures that address, block, or removes these threats. Information about tools, products, or services that mitigate these threats is provided in the report as ...

Introduction

Growth is a primary objective of any organization as it ensures that a company is progressing. There are various growth strategies, and one of these strategies is the acquisition and merger strategies. It is an important strategy that takes tremendous amounts of critical thinking and analysis before the decision is made. The strategy is also a repositioning technique that a company can use in strategically placing itself and its products at a strategic position in the market that promises better profits. All in all, it is a means through which companies can use to maximize their profits provided the ...

Thesis

Improved Detection and Characterization of Obscured Central Gland Tumors of the Prostate:

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2016

©2016 by All rights reserved Approved by First Reader Boris Nicolas Bloch, M.D.

Associate Professor of Radiology and

Director of Bioimaging Science Second Reader Kevin Thomas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Bioimaging and Health Emergency

DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this work to my patient spouse Landry, my wonderful children Charlie and Phoenix, and my dog Armani. (Delete this page if you don't need it. Be sure to delete all the text on the page, and the page break after it, not the section break before it. To see the section and page breaks, ...

Abstract

This essay briefly describes the meanings of the first law and the second law of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics, as the name illustrates, is the field of science where the dynamics of quantities including but not limited to heat and temperature and their relationship with energy, work, entropy etc are dealt with. The first law of thermodynamics is a version of the principle of conservation of energy. It establishes a theoretical limit on how much work can be output when a certain amount of energy is available and vice versa. The second law of thermodynamics is a bit more subtle and ...

The organization is mainly in the production of food services where food and beverages are the typical production outputs. The cycle of production for the organization varies from stage to stage and entails the production phase, the processing phase, the distribution phase, and accessibility of the product, consumption of the product and the waste disposal of consumed items. The inputs are raw food products, and this is prepared to form the different cuisines served. The global village is served with food commodities from various cuisines as the final product. The organization is open to feedback that may either be ...

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Income Inequality in America

Introduction Income inequality is one of the most observable trends in the American society today. There are, for instance, super rich Americans with the resources that are exceedingly high compared to the average American wage earner. Over the years, the disparity between the rich and the poor in terms of income has been widening and it is widening rapidly. Income inequalities have become exceedingly unacceptable that it has become one of the most controversial and talked about topic in contemporary American society. In fact, this coming 2016 United States presidential election, one of the key issues is ...

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Appendix A . 13 1.0 Starbucks at 20 Percent Net Revenue Growth 1.1 Net Revenue Growth of 20 Percent 1.1.1 Current State Statista (2016) ranked Starbucks as the 2015 top leading coffeehouse chain globally in terms of revenue with its revenue of $21.095 billion, followed far behind by Costa Coffee ($1.809 billion) and McCafe ($1.462 billion). It also has the largest store chain of 23,043 stores worldwide. As of fiscal year 2015, Starbucks had a total number of 23,043 stores globally, 12,235 (53%) of which are company-operated stores and 10,808 (47%) are ...

Introduction

At times, industries require the temperatures to be kept below the ambient for some processes to be effective. To do so, they must design ways to eliminate the excess heat generated by machines and introduce an artificial room temperature lower than the ambient. They must effectively eliminate temperatures above the ambient. A refrigerator is thus required in these operations. This refers to a device that can maintain the temperature below the ambient. The primary objective of a refrigeration process is to lower the temperature through heat removal. Since its invention, refrigeration has seen used in many industrial and household ...

It is an intersecting fact to not that to date the notion of dynamic networks refers to either one of two different concepts. First the pattern of Links, in a network topology evolves dynamically in time. Second the nodes can be individual dynamic systems coupled by static links [5, 6, 10, 22 24]. Adaptive networks are not new. Nearly all real world networks are to an extent adaptive and adaptive networks occurs in multiple disciplines today [12, 13, and 18]. What is new is that in recent years adaptive networks have become a focal point of extensive investigation using ...

Introduction

The fundamental process of thermal power plants is based on the conversion of thermal energy into mechanical energy and, subsequently, into electric power, using steam as the working fluid. According to the U.S. Energy Information System, over 67% of the electrical energy in the United States is generated through thermoelectric power plants, which use the combustion of fossil fuels such as natural gas, coal and petroleum to generate the steam necessary for the process; moreover, thermoelectric power generation accounts for an approximate 80% of all the power generation worldwide. Thus, the electricity consumed in most homes and industries is ...