Essays on Monitoring

Computer Ethic Monitoring

Introduction

Computer usage is very vital towards the success of any organization. Many companies store data on the computer systems and many forms of workplace communications are done through the use of computers. The use of computers has made it possible for the efficiency of different business activities to be improved further. This has also made it easy for electronic monitoring of employees in a given firm. It is very important to carry out monitoring of the employees so as to ensure the survival of the business. However, the process of monitoring the employees can also Continue reading...

Introduction

Legal and ethical issues related with employees monitoring at workplace are rising. Government has formed various laws to protect employees on various issues such discrimination, safety and security and equality. Employers also brought various changes at workplace such as advance technology, diversified workforce and effective & transparent processes. All such changes resulted in making: process more complex, increased policies and regulations to protect employees’ concerns. Not all these changes are welcomed by employees and employee monitoring at workplace gained lot of attention. Employee monitoring has become a topic of debate. This research paper intends to analyze legal and ethical aspects Continue reading...

The significant purpose of any given government is to support its state and people through dissimilar measures including economic, political and military. However, this is the major reasons why during times of war or other threats to the country, the government takes the authority of applying extra ordinary measurers such as restricting freedom and freezing assets among others. Concurrently, I think that such measures are only relevant when there is a state of emergency in the country so that the government can safeguard its citizen but not throughout. Therefore, the government should note that such measures should only be Continue reading...

- Executive Summary
This paper explores into the annals of citizen science in relation with the use of tourists in community environmental monitoring in order to enhance the creation of sustainable destinations. The gist of the paper involves the exploration of a central theme of how tourists can be used as citizen scientists in community environmental monitoring. In advancing the theme, the paper analyses six citizen science projects that predominantly use tourists to collect data for analysis. The main project analyzed in the paper is the Fluker Post Research Project in Melbourne Australia. To back the analysis of the Continue reading...

Introduction

Business environment today is based on multivendor pasterns and most of them cut across several regions or nations. These businesses are designed in such a way that they can be controlled from a central point. The emergence of computer technology and high quality internet connections across several regions has been a major boost for multivendor business operations. Despite this, it is imperative that the various business entities or branches of a particular organization have systems that can be effectively managed from a central point through server based technologies. Managing several business entities from a single point has its challenges Continue reading...

Article Review/Analysis

Introduction
The use of internet has increasingly been used in both the developing and the developed countries. Educational programs have been shifted to the internet with many families going into the internet for the first time. Many schools, almost all are incorporating internet-based materials into their education curriculum. For the elderly people, they are implementing internet usage at their workplaces. However, there is attention on the challenges to parents on the content of what their children take advantages of in the internet. According to this article, which has data form 749 pairs of American parents and their teenage children Continue reading...

Introduction

Marshfield clinic is non-profit healthcare institution that has been operating for almost one hundred years in the US. The clinic was founded by the six doctors in 1916. The clinic is currently domiciled in Marshfield. The current paper related detailed Quality Management Plan (QMP) and the scope of QMP in Marshfield clinic. It also contains analysis of mission statement and compliance of the goals of Quality Management Plan with mission of the healthcare institution. A significant part of the paper relates principles of Quality Management Plan and reporting of Quality Management Plan activities.

Mission Statement

Mission of Marshfield clinic is to Continue reading...

The Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Concerns of Employee Monitoring

With the increase in the uptake of technology to carry out various work duties many employees have been lax in executing their duties and responsibilities. Employees especially those who work with computers and the internet have been known to use about a third of company time in doing non-work related activities via the internet with majority of them logged into social sites just chatting away. The technology entrusted upon them is to help increase productivity and shorten the time it takes to do work, but some people misuse this privilege at the company’s expense (Jeffrey, 2006, p. 37). Continue reading...

Introduction

This paper summarizes four papers related to Pervasive Healthcare in Smart Environment for Aged-Care in UAE. This assignment criticizes four research papers in the context and literature of the research question. This paper highlights key elements such as; aim of the study, methodology used, outcome and analysis of the paper.
- ANGELAH: a framework for assisting elders at home

Aim

The paper aims at addressing domestic safety for elders. It is because there is an increase in injuries and deaths among the elderly.

Objectives

-how can we detect and monitor possible dangerous situations?
-how can we improve emergency response and detection?

Methodology

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Introduction

In recent times, the advancement of technology has brought with it numerous changes to the manner in which business is transacted and the way people communicate. Several decades ago, any ordinary office had employees such as messengers and errand persons who would be employed for the sole purpose of taking information from one office to another and from one organization to the next. Operations largely depended on human effort to be completed and much of the work was done manually without the use of even the simplest machines that would make this work easier. However, with technology, many inventions Continue reading...

The emergence of new technologies in software engineering and computer science has led to the development of effective technologies that help to increase the productivity in businesses. Employees are an asset for a company and their maximum efforts translate into benefits for the company. Thanks to latest technology, companies today can keep a check on employees and measure their productivity using electronic monitoring.
Like every technology, its introduction has both negative as well as positive impact. Introduction of computer followed by internet in workplace, although increased productivity by manifolds, it also caused the advent of gaming, malicious spamming and Continue reading...

Question 1

You own a $250,000 house and pay $1,000 for fire insurance. What is the exercise value of the fire insurance put option if the house does not burn (and you have paid no claim)? What is the realized return on your investment in fire insurance?

Exercise value for a put option = Put strike price – Current price of the underlying asset

= 0 – 1000 = - $1000

Question 2

What are the exercise values and time premiums of the following option:
Exxon Mobile call with a strike price of $35 and a market value of $1.80. Exxon Mobil stock is selling for $33.40.
Exercise value for a call option =Current asset price - the Continue reading...

Security monitoring

Security monitoring comprises several continuous or discrete activities to ensure internal control systems are functioning as expected in an organization. In today’s entrepreneurial world organizations have adopted different applications that require different level of security assessments and security measures. The organization should consider the fact that a security risk will vary between the external and internal applications hence these applications must be carefully reviewed in order to determine the prospective risks and ways of pre cautioning against the risk. Security monitoring activities are a major element in the organizations security plan in order to prevent loss Continue reading...

Introduction

This study is confined to the limits of Los Angeles and studies the traffic in this place. City boundaries of Los Angeles area suffer from an ever-growing traffic. With the growing population and their expansion in different areas, the problem has grown in intensity. The traffic is not limited to the city boundaries. It has also spread into contagious territory where street congestion, delays in traffic and life and property hazard is as great as in the central traffic area of Los Angeles. This paper studies about the traffic problems of Los Angeles and the need for it.
The Continue reading...

Investigating Data Theft

Introduction
The use of computers and an internet has been vastly increased at businesses in just few years. This trend has transformed the entire system of the worldwide businesses. Economies have been boosted up, communication gap has been decreased, and businesses have now much more growth opportunities. Beside these advantages of technology and an internet, there are certain risks and challenges that businesses have to face due to these latest advancements. Among these issues, security threats and risks to confidential corporate data is on the top of list.
Computer and internet experts have formulated various strategies and techniques to Continue reading...

Continuous monitoring

Continuous monitoring of information systems is a move towards ensuring security of the system. It’s a strategy laid down to track down and prevent possible threats to the system before the risk gets out of hand. It seeks to create awareness of how secure the system is by comparing the efficiency of the system to the expected level. Data on performance is collected and analyzed to make this possible (Vacca, 2009).
Continuous monitoring is an important strategy when viewed from different perspectives. Its main importance comes in that it plays a major role in ensuring proper security controls Continue reading...

Abstract

The term surveillance originates from the French language and it means “watching over” Surveillance is the act of monitoring activities and behavior as well as people’s surreptitious changing of information. Surveillance mostly refers to a private observation of individuals or groups of people by government organizations. Also, disease surveillance is process of monitoring the disease progress in a given community. The term surveillance can as well be applied to distance observations by electronic equipment means. A good example of electronic equipments used for surveillance is a CCTV camera. Another surveillance method is through electronically transmitted information interceptions Continue reading...

Performance plan

There are various equipment and DTEs which are found in the Fantasy Games network. With the advent of the internet and computer networks, there is the need to have a network in the organization so that resources are shared and communication will be effected. With the growing nodes that are seen to be growing by the day, there will be need to have monitoring of the network.

Variables in the network

The network has a lot of equipment and computing devices. These devices will need to be monitored so that their management is well taken care of. There are servers, routers, firewalls and Continue reading...

Introduction

For most companies, employee monitoring is perceived as a necessity. Employee monitoring is understood as an act of watching and monitoring the actions of the employees in the workplace during working hours. In this paper, surveillance in the workplace is considered as a form of employee monitoring.

Allen et al. (2007) defined surveillance as the “few watching the man” whereby the employers decided to use surveillance technology to monitor any or all of the employees’ messages and physical behaviors. Continue reading...

Geospatial technology is a very important tool for monitoring and analyzing the effects of human activities on the environment. This form of analysis is very important to scientists, geographers and the government. It helps to determine the nature of damages that man can expose to the environment and therefore prompting for the right action to be taken.

Every track of land in different places on the earth’s surface is unique it its own way. No land remains the same forever. At some point in time, it may undergo some transformation that completely changes it Continue reading...

Abstract

Great deal of children all over the world suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Symptoms of ADHD include hyperactivity, emotionalism and difficulty of staying focused. Children with ADHD usually have the lack of comprehension skills, poor study results and problems with following instructions as a result, they are more likely to conflict with coevals and teachers.
There are different types of ADHD treatments, the most common one is academic interventions which include manipulating antecedent conditions, parent tutoring, homework management programs, instructional modifications, self-monitoring. Self- monitoring technique is crucial for children with ADHD, as teaches them not only to regulate Continue reading...

Abstract

The enhancement of cyber-attacks that is being experienced at enterprise, national and international level is worrying. This trend has resulted in the increase of funding for the research and study of cybersecurity technologies. Threats occurring on the organization’s assets are experienced daily due to change and improvement of technologies that are developed frequently. Computer security is an important aspect of any organization and government agency. With the advancement in computer technologies, there are advanced attacks that are targeted at computer systems which are thought to contain vital information. Computer hackers are doing all they can to break into Continue reading...

Biosensors emerged as an important technology that has gained much attention in different fields of study. Biosensor is "a self-contained analytical device that combines the biological component with a physicochemical component for the detection of an analyte of biological importance." (Hasan et al. 2014). Perumal & Hashim (2013) defined it according to IUPAC recommendation of 1999, which states that a biosensor is, "an independently integrated receptor transducer device, which is capable of providing selective quantitative or semi-quantitative analytical information using a biological recognition element."The application of nanobiotechnology in the production of biosensors and various other applications is one of Continue reading...

Qualitative Research Critique

Discussion
Article Citation
(Place in the column to right and include in your reference list for this assignment. This is APA related, so no points are assigned, but can be lost for this.)
Burkhart, P. V., Rayens, M. K., &Oakley, M. G. (2012). Effect of Peak Flow Monitoring on Child Asthma Quality of Life. Journal Of Pediatric Nursing, 27(1), 18-25.

Introductory Materials: number each question below separately in your answers to the right.

1. Introduction to problem
2. Research problems/hypotheses
3. Significance of the problem
4. Theoretical concept/framework
5. Literature review
1. Did the researcher(s) introduce the problem and how was it put into a meaningful context for research?
The Continue reading...

Internal control practices are the activities that enable a company to maintain an environment that is solely focused on accountability and ethics. These are systems that are put in place to safeguard the resources of the business. By putting in place these practices department benefits in the following ways; one of the benefits is that the internal controls provide checks and balances on the usage of resources. They also ensure that the areas of priority in an organization are identified as well as addressed. Another benefit of putting in place internal controls is that it allows the company to Continue reading...

Emergency Network Security Monitoring

This refers to the collection, analysis, of indications and warnings to detect and respond to intrusions in a computer network during a crisis. All computer networks have vulnerabilities that both external and internal intruders are likely to attack. The threats may come over wired or wireless networks. Network Security Monitoring uses indicators to detect threats to an organization’s security. Indicators are activities that show the intruder's intentions. Intrusion Detections Systems compile the indicators and forward them to an analyst. The analyst interprets the information, and if need be, gives a warning to the supervisor for corrective decision-making.
Decision Continue reading...

Individual Reflective Essay

Introduction
This report is a reflection of the activities undertaken by the group team in the task of organizing a three day conference, a project that the group carried out. The project is a report on a response by Reliable Ltd to an invitation to tender geared to succeeding in the process of organizing a three day international conference deemed to take place at a strategic location in the UK. This report gives a detailed discussion on how the group went about to ensure success in this project including how the team was organized and managed, communication management within Continue reading...

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper was to argue for the use of intermediate sanctions compared to prison sentences. The paper highlighted the potential benefits of using intermediate sanctions as a replacement for prison sentencing. It was established that intermediate sanctions are cost effective, ensure offender rehabilitation, reinforces public safety and serves to address the problems associated with the prison sentencing such as overcrowding and recidivism rates. The paper also discussed the nine types of intermediate sanctions used in the United States including Intensive Supervision Programs, Fines, Community Service, Day Reporting Centers, Remote location monitoring, Residential Community Centers, Boot Continue reading...

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Connected Health: A Review Of Technologies And Strategies To Improve Patient Care With Telemedicine And Telehealth

- Joseph Kvedar1,
- Molly Joel Coye2 and
- Wendy Everett3,*
+ Author Affiliations
- 1Joseph Kvedar is director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare System, in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 2Molly Joel Coye is chief innovation officer at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health, UCLA Medical Center, in Los Angeles.
- 3Wendy Everett () is president of NEHI ( Continue reading...

Disease Surveillance Requirements in Australia

While much has been hypothesized regarding disease surveillance, it is of the essence to note that this occurs as one of the fundamental components of animal health services. This may be attributed to the fact that disease surveillance offers a comprehensive platform that provides warning on impending disease outbreaks. On a similar note, disease surveillance offers a viable platform that allows for planning, implementation and monitoring of a wider array of disease control programs. In a nutshell, disease surveillance is important for emergency preparedness for any animal disease. A close analysis of the Australian contexts depicts the existence of Continue reading...

The application of the “Precautionary Principle” for the deployment of climate bioengineering initiative requires that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change through the Subsidiary Body for Climate Geoengineering (SBCE) to conduct regular and continuous monitoring initiatives of the perceived adverse and positive effects of the reengineering program. It will also require continuous collaboration and active participation among its different stakeholders.5
The precautionary principle states that if our organization performs an initiative that could pose potential harm to the public in sync with the absence of consensus in the scientific community, the burden of proof that the said Continue reading...

Introduction

Information Technology has transformed major areas of human life. Technology has made it easier for humans to communicate and interact with each other. Infusing classrooms with digital learning materials such as computers, hand held devices and the internet increases student-to-student interaction as well as student-teacher interaction (Bitner & Bitner, 2002). Interaction forms the basis of learning as through it students get to discuss educational materials with each other (Sharma & Barrett, 2011). Students also tend to initiate discussions with the teachers, therefore, understanding of the course’s contents. Information technology makes this educational interaction faster than it is without technology whereby Continue reading...

Organizational change plan

Part I of the organizational change plan identified the aim of the EMR project which is to gradually phase out storage of patient information in form of paper work and replace it with electronic records that can be accessed from any location within the nation. Further, it elaborated on the factors potentiating the need for EMR which included the 2009 American and Reinvestment Act and prospect of reduced funding from Medicare and Medicaid amongst others. In addition, it discussed the individual and organizational barriers to the proposed change which encompassed passive resistance, lack of Continue reading...

During the last few years, we have observed a dramatic growth in the field of Information Technology and the main reason of this was an arrival of Internet technology and its subsequent development. Its rapid development and the further Information advancements and improvements have made the whole system more vulnerable against the virtual threats and attacks of internal and external origins. The threats and accidents in the Information Security can be explained with the lack of confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic data. However, the researchers kept fighting against these threats, as they kept on inventing a variety of Continue reading...

Reference

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2. Vlastos, A.E. and T. Orbeck, Outdoor leakage current monitoring of silicone composite insulators in coastal service conditions. IEEE transactions on power delivery, 1996. 11(2): p. 1066-1070.
3. Amin, M., M. Akbar, and S. Amin, Hydrophobicity of silicone rubber used for outdoor insulation (an overview). Rev. Adv. Mater. Sci, 2007. 16: p. 10-26.
4. Tingtao, Z., et al. On-line monitoring system of insulator leakage current based on ARM. in Industrial Electronics Continue reading...

Organizational Description of the limousine services in TexasIntroduction

Limousine services have taken a new direction whereby providing services to the people depend on the prices which must be considerate due to the competition in Austin, Texas. The major objective of the limousine business is to offer car hire services to the resident and the people living around the city. The company has an expectation of $50000 annually as the net revenue from the annual budget that requires 25 employees. This is required after all the expenses are catered for which may include the insurance and maintenance of the limousine. Through projection on business, in few years, it Continue reading...

1.0 CHAPTER I
1.1 Combating Criminal Narcotics Activity along the Southern Border
Drug trade has been rife with violence for decades, though the level of violence we experience today are extraordinary. Without working on minimizing the severity of the problems that confront us today, it is critical to understand the background of the culture of violence and the cyclical nature of the violence epidemics. Substance abuse is one of the major problems facing nations while costing them a lot of money in health care costs, lost productivity, related crimes, and other social costs. It also contributes to high death Continue reading...

Personal use of company’s phone

Mobile phones, just like other company resources, are given to employees of various companies. The mobile phones have been given to employees so as to make these employees more connected, and thus more available. Due to technological advancement, various services such as customer services have been improved. The same companies have, however, observed that these mobile phones have been a source of distractions (Jennings, p. 36). The mobile phones are major corporate liability exposure for employee acts. Most employees are always tempted to make personal phone calls using the company’s mobile phones. Making of personal phone all results Continue reading...

The use of social media has become a gift and a curse to the society. It has become a gift to the society because; it is an easy way of communication with people and friends around the globe. People communicate easily through messages and posting through social networks such as Twitter, Whatsapp, Facebook, MySpace, just to mention but a few (Baran, 2012). Most teens use the social media to communicate and use it others for fun. On the other hand, it has become a curse because, many people are suffering from social media bullying. Social networks have made it Continue reading...

Introduction

The current technology with wireless sensors network has created a better opportunity for the growth and expansion of many industries in the world. The wireless sensors network industry is the latest in the data network family. Organizations that implement wireless networks have realized a decrease in most challenges associated with communication of company staff, clients, and stakeholders. One of the sectors that has benefited from the wireless sensors network is the healthcare industry. Healthcare industry faces a great challenge when it comes to communication between health workers, physicians, patients, and other healthcare centers. Many organizations have started offering wireless Continue reading...