Essays on Usability

Management Information Systems

Green Information Technology or Green IT refers to the use of environmentally sustainable computing. It aims at minimizing the negative effects of Information Technology practices on the ecosystem. This is achieved through designing, fabricating, operating and disposing computers as well as other computer related items in a way that is friendly to the environment. The reasons behind green information technology procedures include but not limited to reduction of the consumption of dangerous materials, increasing energy efficiency during the IT products’ lifespan and promoting the recyclability of unused as well as obsolete IT products. The concept of green Information Technology ...

1. Smartphone Landscape: Background Mobility has come to be (and is more likely to continue to be) a defining feature of current and future consumption of web-mediated and multimedia content propagated over numerous applications and platforms. If anything, big and small companies are investing in mobility devices and applications in order to cater to increasing consumer needs. Given current mobility landscape at a global scale, big players dominate global markets in numerous areas including, most notably, product design and concept, built-in platforms and applications (which are provided based on broad supplier networks) and, not least, physical stories in premium ...

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Organizations select operating systems for use in their workstations and servers depending on their preference. In my organization, the preferred operating system is Linux. However, vendors to supply the system and associated support have not been determined. As such, the paper aims at considering different factors of the individual vendors such as reliability, performance, availability of training, and availability of support. Moreover, aspects such as pricing and suitability in different work environments will be considered since each organization is expected to have its advantages and disadvantages. Extensive research from the literature will be conducted to ensure that a clear ...

I. Introduction The ubiquitous presence of mobility devices, including most notably smartphones, highlights how mobility has come to be integral to everyday life at workplace, college and home. The major focus on mobility is, given current coverage, is on applications and cloud platforms. Less reported still but is, probably, of much more significance, as shown later, is wireless licenses and applications which enable much of current mobility operational efficiency, if not operability at all. As is always common in ICT innovations, user interface applications and platforms more often than not draw ICT community's attention, a community focused more new ...

Using Word processing for the everyday tasks like making notes and printing out flyers could be a tricky task when we aren’t very much aware of which ropes to pull, but it really isn’t that hard of an application to use and navigate around. This does not, however, mean that users do not feel overwhelmed while using applications of word processing for they most definitely do. When using word Processing, specifically Microsoft Word for the very first time, users may find difficulty in interpreting the meanings and the functions of the various icons displayed on the ribbon. ...

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Customers are a vital part of any business entity because they are the life of an organization. Many companies take their relationships with their clients very seriously hence this begs the attention of customer relationship management. The process customer relationship management is primarily the practices, strategies and most importantly technologies used by companies to interact with their clients (Rouse). It entails the analysis and management of the rate of customer interaction with the business. Key areas of interest are within the points of contact with the customer like direct mail, telephone, live chat, websites, social media and even trough ...

A & F Ltd.: Integrating Learning into Mashup Implementations

I. Introduction Organizations are learning differently. Compared to a conventional model by which individuals, work groups and whole organizations used to learn new business processes, current business practice has opened up new potentials for company-wide learning enabled by ICT platforms and applications. The growing collaboration, communication and sharing learning (and fun) experiences in current business practice is, indeed, both evolutionary and revolutionary. The learning behavior of operating businesses is evolutionary by phasing out older modes of learning (e.g. formal professional development, meetings and water cooler chats) and implementing similar platforms and applications (e.g. interactive, collaborative, user-friendly wikis). Thus, by ...

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E-services can be best described as services offered by governments and organizations via the Internet. This paper intends to measure the usability of E-services for illiterate users in Saudi Arabia. This is done by using a general form specifically designed for data collection. The utilization of a special soft keyboard has been suggested for bringing improvements in the E-services usability.

Introduction

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has shown excessive interest in the transformation to e-government in the recent years. For that reason, the government and institutions are considering to introduce electronic services. This is also important as e-services offer huge ...

I. Environment Scan: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats Currently, Google is an Internet company which has gone well beyond search business (Edelman & Eisenmann, 2011). Against a stated philosophy of "It is best to do one thing really, really well," Google has diversified core business, i.e. search and paid listings, into a broad range of product and service offerings cutting across numerous industries and business activities. Notably, Google has diversified from search business into communication applications, productivity applications and computing operating systems (Edelman & Eisenmann). This expansion mandates an environment scan of Google's to be not only limited to search business but ...

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This document is a project proposal for the development of starch-based hemostatic products. Acknowledgement. Much thanks to the project supervisor who offered guidance in every step of the development of this proposal. Developing starch based hemostatic products Project summary. Purpose: This proposal is envisioned to develop a hemostatic agent from purified plant starch. In this case, the product of the reaction should be developed by the formation of microporous hemosphere particles after etherification, esterification and crosslinking of glucose molecules to form ethyl propanetriol (glycerol-ether links (1-3 deoxy propanol)). The second intention of this study is to investigate the properties ...

Disney’s communication: A Website Review

1. Introduction Disney’s website is based on graphic representation of the most popular and latest characters created by the movie company. The www.disney.com.au website’s navigation is based on the image tabs, and the layout complies with the style guides described by Lynch and Horton. The below essay will focus on different website elements that make the Disney.com.au pages responsive, interactive, and user friendly, based on the general guidelines of styling and designing pages. 2. Website Analysis The purpose of the Disney website designed to engage with fans of movies and provide information about the screening, merchandise, and ...

Whether in an acute care hospital setting or on an outpatient basis, quality improvement initiatives are significant drivers in the total quality management of the nursing field. Without quality improvement initiatives, the science and art of nursing would lag far behind the rest of healthcare delivery and access, and would stagnate the entire system. Thus, quality improvement initiatives in outpatient care have been a focus during the last several years, improving overall patient experience. The Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System is one of the nursing hubs that is leading the way in quality initiatives. Its information technology system ...

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Section 1: Basic Concepts Concept of the Cloud The IT term “ cloud” is short for two related concepts. For the man on the street, it can just mean the internet and that is acceptable1. For the IT initiate, it would be “cloud computing” which is the delivery of on-demand computing services (e.g. applications) to clients via the internet from server farms of the service provider. These services are applications and databases which reside in the vendor’s various locations unknown to the customers. Google and Facebook are there in the cloud. Such architecture allows the type of service called ...

In geospatial technologies, usability engineering is used to deliberate on the patterns within data sets while also proposing possible hypothesis through which such patterns came to exist. Usability engineering is in itself an analytical tool for studying complex geographical data with the aim of understanding the reasons behind the existence of specific geographical systems. Usability engineering is largely concerned with the application of computer systems with the aim of enhancing the analysis of complex geospatial datasets. It also seeks to improve the human-computer interactive platforms to ensure that the reliability of the decoded information and simulate possible situations that ...

The right to use fundamental well-being facilities has been a key objective of much fitness law-making and strategy formulation processes to adhere to the health care requirement of the people. Up-gradation in the right to use the basic well-being facilities pave the manner for advancement in the value of people’s life. Though attempts to idealize and functionalize procedures of the right to use have varied. In this paper, access is fragmented into five elements as ease of use, acceptability, convenience, having enough money, and sufficiency. An incentive for this idea is the existence of comparatively restricted research studies ...

Multi-Organisational

Enterprises & System(BNM830) Major: Supply Chain Management Total word count: 5728 Net Word Count: 5023 PART 1 A. Apple Inc. is one organization that is known by many to deliver a diverse and complex product-service system. The firm is a technology organization whose products are of high quality and more available to its clients. The company also provides varied services and has opted to venture into other complex activities that are not common with many, if not all, technology companies (Apple, 2015). One of its best selling products is the iPhone6 brand that is not only available in the ...

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The use of wearable and mobile technologies in clinical psychology research and clinical practice Mobile and wearable technologies including smartphones are among the most acceptable and promising technologies that are used by clinical researchers to study different psychopathological disorders such as schizophrenia. These technologies can not only help in the assessment of the problem but also help the patient and his or her family members in the self-management and treatment of the disorder. These technologies are also suitable for patients and researchers as they often come with impressive computational capabilities and they can be connected to ...

Innovation and Risk Management

Introduction Strategic growth is an essential element of increasing business activity and profits. There are a number of possible ways through which strategic growth can be achieved by an organization. One of the best ways to achieve strategic growth is to introduce a new product in the existing range of products. The new product should be unique and better or complimentary to the existing range of products. The organisation chosen for this study is Apple Inc. and a New Product Development (NPD) process is included in the report while covering the strategic growth of the company.

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Conclusion..8 References..9 Amazon Review & Strategy Analysis Current Market Factors Amazon is among a number of firms that emerged quickly during the 1990’s or 2000’s. Among the others that have done the same would include Google, Twitter and Facebook. Twenty years ago, Amazon and these other firms were in their infancy or did not exist. The veritable explosion of social media, mobile computing and internet technology in general has served as a vehicle to help those firms progress from their nascent stages to the ...

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Tesla Motors was developed in the year 2003 and has been the pioneer of producing the environment friendly vehicles ever since. The company has been widely known for its high performance sports cars that are equipped with the latest technology features and hinder the carbon emission, which eventually makes its vehicles environment friendly. The company is aimed towards reducing its inventory, production and distribution cost and provide high-end vehicles at low cost. The company is focused on enhancing the customer experience by means of providing them with the innovative features and design while keeping the cost low ...

1. Overview of the project. The project requires to develop a secure network infrastructure for Developers worldwide Inc. The new software system must be cost effective and helpful to secure all the data. The nature of the sustainable network must be user friendly as it not only the personnel of the company will use it but the student and visitors will also have a permanent access to it. The aim of the project is too focus on the growth of business by expansion in a secured way. In addition to it, being cost effective is an essential element of ...

Marchant (2013) wrote the article Management Accounting in the 21st Century: A Profession for Which the Time Has Come, about the growing importance of management accountants in the new century. The author indicates that the twenty-first century has witnessed the emergence of an economy based on the information age, in which knowledge is a primary source of competitiveness. As the boundaries of traditional industries become a blur, there is a new level of demand for the skills of today`s accountants (Marchant, 2013). Marchant (2013) underline the importance of developing an analytical ability, by assembling a team of professionals ...

Introduction

Despite the fact that Apple Inc. and the Geek Squad are both engaged in the business of technology, they distinctly provide and offer different services to the market. Simply put, Apple Inc. basically provides the hardware while the Geek Squad provides the technical support to the end-users in order to operate such hardware. Regardless of their operational differences, it can be observed in the two case studies that both organizations have become successful in their endeavors through an understanding of the five environmental forces which impact their respective companies. These include social, economic, technological, competitive, and regulatory forces which ...

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Problem Statement Underdeveloped markets are far behind the developed markets when it comes to the acceptance of technological advancements. The size of the underdeveloped market is huge, and there are great opportunities for growth in such markets. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is a theory of information system that shows the pattern in which the users can accept using technology that can be applied to undeveloped markets to determine the acceptance of new business models.

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The paper aims to discuss the TAM theory and develop an extension to it for underdeveloped markets. Purpose of Study The extension of TAM model ...

Proposal Recommendation

Executive Summary Over the last decade, our school district has done an excellent job in keeping up with the latest in all of technological trends, accelerating the knowledge and computer skills of our students. Such knowledge and computer skills have afforded many of our schools with high rankings, as is compared to our closest counterparts. We have been known to set a trend that is not always the most popular. Yet in spite of such lack of popularity, we are able to account in a compensatory manner. For example, our choices have always tended to prove to be the ...

Analysis The Netflix Website

Report Distributed June 30, 2016 INTRODUCTION Overview Netflix is an American based streaming service from where a subscriber can view TV content as well as movies. It's a subscription service where one pays for the content they wish to stream based on their preference and ability to pay. The choice of the website is due to its stylish layout and easy to navigate the menu. This report analyzes and reveals the advantage and disadvantage of the overall layout and detailed design of the website of Netflix, with attachment of vivid website pictures to help explain to readers.

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Digital forensics is a critical component of forensic discipline that includes crimes and misconducts with respect to computer systems. The use of computers to investigate online crimes led to the development of this new field known as Digital forensics. The field provides new ideas for understanding and betterment of concepts and directing future concepts in Digital Forensics. Over the last few years, with the advent of latest electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops, the concept has gained popularity over the span of few years. This has resulted in a shift of thefts from real time to ...

Figuring out a path for life is something that the youth find hard to establish. This is because there are a lot of options that add up from going to college, getting employed, doing both or even starting up a business. The options depend on the circumstances and the final decision of the person. This is why brainstorming is important in that it identifies for you what you need through comparing different strategies and options in life. Researching is also an important method to find out what works and how it can work. Anyone starting up has to be ...

Introduction

The Sports R US is the leading sports company and act as a provider of clinics, camps and sporting activities. It is the best training center for the sports related activities. Sports R US offers quality sports programming to the Chicago suburban community. They can provide a variety of sports program year round. They have the responsibility to offer staffing and equipment for all programs. They are organizing the youth sports programs. Now, they start up new company renders self service for the customers. This online convenient self-service solution for customers accessing sports products. The Web application would need ...

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Media companies utilize the media to provide information for the benefit of users. They also provide platforms for communicating information and sharing ideas. Multinational corporations are able to accomplish this on an international scale to an international audience. Comcast is such a media company. This research paper analyses the use of electronic media and Email in Comcast Media Company. This Media Company has made use of a wiki to streamline its websites to be user-friendly both to users and employees. In fact, the wiki the assimilation of the wiki into their websites has proven efficient. They have also used ...

What Steps Are Needed To Select A Brand And Model?

It is important to establish professional consultation before choosing any new model or brand of software. Depending on the proposed needs, the scope of the solution needed, and the available time, preliminary budget allocation and milestones are finalized before venturing out. Assuming there are various vendors in the market, I would provide a list of 10 to 20 items and functions that will be specifically tailored for the school uses. Vendors must use live software to demonstrate usability and solving of real life issues. Additionally, I would need to enquire about installation methodology, usability, system start-up, and necessary requirements. ...

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Microsoft Office is one of the prized innovations made by Microsoft in the late 20th Century. It has more than one billion customers all over the world, and the numbers are increasing with every passing year (Arghire, 2012). Every few years, Microsoft updates its Office suite to improve customer experience and make the software compatible with upgraded operating systems. Microsoft makes Office available in both desktop and mobile version, which has helped in making the software popular and widely used. The Microsoft Office suite consists of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, OneNote, Outlook, Sway, etc. The latest Microsoft Office suite ...

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The purpose of using interactive digital menus in restaurants and pubs.4 The examples of a digital menu integration in trading venues5 The benefits of using interactive digital menus6 The working principle of e-menu in restaurants and bars 8 Conclusion....10

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Introduction The current technological conditions are fascinating. The struggle between the outdated technologies and innovations can be seen every single day. The printed information has been already replaced by digital technologies, cell-phones have been replaced by smartphones, tablets and laptops replaced books and journals, and even in restaurant industry, the old-fashioned paper menu is being replaced by new ...

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Zillow.com is a real estate website that boasts of providing its consumers with quality data and knowledge that can help them for various activities that include selling, buying, financing, remodeling, and renting. Zillow.com has a database of more than 100 million properties in the US. The website has also a mobile version and apps that are suitable for different platforms. This report is an evaluation of the website form a specific view of the consumer. The website is evaluated on various parameters on the effectiveness to serve ...

Virtualization Software

Introduction Nowadays, many companies turn to virtualization software (hypervisors) to emulate physical PCs and use virtual machines installed on a single physical platform. Such virtualization software can become a great advantage for any company, and this software can help to cut costs and improve various business processes. Thus, the Hertz Corporation, a world-known car rental company, should consider using virtualization software in its core business activities. There are many types of virtualization software designed and developed by different companies, and all software brands have their pros and cons that should be taken into close consideration when choosing an appropriate ...

Introduction

The report is aimed at reviewing the Bunnings Warehouse website, and documenting a critical evaluation of it. The website will be evaluated in terms of its compliance with responsive web design and development principles, usability, interactivity and design aspects. The report will conduct an extensive analysis of the website to identify both its advantages of disadvantages.

Discussion

The subject of this evaluation is a website of a largest hardware store in Australia, Bunnings Warehouse. Its main purpose is advertising goods, such as tools, furniture, hardware and construction products. Bunnings do not offer buying products directly from the website, but have ...

Its ease of use, hassle-free negotiable platform, and reliability has attracted many city dwellers, especially tourists, to choose online taxi services over traditional methods of cab booking. But among many online cab service providers, Uber has established itself over the others in a short span of time. Especially in the United Kingdom, their market shares are astonishingly high compared to the country’s oldest running taxi services such as Addison Lee and Black Taxi. More than the usual marketing tricks and colorful experiences to fool the customers, there is a working system under this whole operation of Uber to ...

Two reasons why users are avoiding Windows 8

Users are avoiding Windows 8 due to the overlapping of Aero User and Metro interface. It is difficult and complicated for a user to switch between desktop applications and metro applications making windows eight not user-friendly, as it creates a lot of confusion for the developers and the users. Another reason is that Windows 8 provides no possible way to turn home screens into icons. The Start screen looks garbled when many apps are installed.

Recommend at least one cause of action that Microsoft can take to address these concern and reason

Microsoft can come up with a technology that enables the changing of home screens to icons to minimize the garbling of apps and confusion ...

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How can we improve on existing websites? Websites in today’s times are the first impression for any company. They need to be dynamically updated with latest information and should be able to be accessed on laptops and mobiles. It is always best for any business to keep its website updated. Many businesses run on websites today, thus it is important to have the best and user-friendly website. Some of the ways to advance the existing website include: Updating the Content: Content for any website must be current. It should have a section for queries so that the ...

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The discussion on the shift of power from the marketers and brands to the consumers can be proven with the varied usage dimensions of consumer power tools like ad-block apps. Particularly, this enables the consumers to remove the ads from their web pages. As such, the internet users enjoy fast online page loading and lower data costs. Many factors have contributed to increase use of ad-block apps. It is also clear that the availability of the ad-block apps on iPhones has led to wide use of blocker programs. This has given consumers the power to disturb the marketing ability ...

Introduction

Usability refers to the ease with which a system or a device can be used, to ensure effectiveness and consumer satisfaction while achieving its objectives. User interfaces simplify the usability of devices and systems by providing the user with easy-to-use interactive displays and information. Companies develop products that fit their intended market. Consumers, therefore, are a vital component in the development of systems as system developers take into account the user-friendliness of their product. Usability heuristics seeks to provide a platform for product developers to create a product that serves the purpose in a targeted demographic, with ease of ...

How RFID technology is developed, adopted, and implemented?

Development The development of RFID technologies has its origins in the 19th-century discoveries of electronic inductance and electromagnetism. Detection systems such as RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) were precursors to the RFID technology. The paper about the technology behind RFID was presented in 1948. Radio Frequency was used in the IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) systems deployed by the British in World War II. Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) to detect removal of articles without purchasing is in use since the 1960s. The UPC (Universal Product Code, which is a barcode) is the first passive auto-identification system. RFID is an ...

Software testing is defined as the process of executing software to determine its functionality. The goal is to demonstrate to the developers as well as the users that the software meets the technical and business requirements (Homè̀s, 2012). Standards on the other hands are documents outlining guidelines, specifications, characteristics, or requirements to ensure that products are consistent and meet their purpose. There are national and international standards that guide the development and testing processes for software. In Australia, the AS/NZS ISO/IEC 25062:2006 is a standard that provides User Interface (UI) designers or software usability professionals procedures for testing ...

Identifying the requirements

For a logo to be effective it requires to be simple, easy to remember, it is not necessary that a logo be graphically related to the organization it is representing, it may not make sense at all visually as brand but if it is simple and people can easily remember it, then it becomes very useful and powerful tool for branding. As far as requirements for a brand go, it is self explanatory; a logo is a simple identification mark that people can use to identify a company that is its only function. In Logo design there are no ...

The following essay will review the design features and usability characteristics of a dishwasher. Despite the fact that I use the dishwasher daily, I am relatively certain I do not fully understand how to use it correctly. This is a result of poor design, in some areas, and a lack of the knowledge needed to use it more completely. Our dishwasher, which is manufactured by Whirlpool, is black and roughly 26 inches by 32 inches, and sets into a section of the cabinetry, so that it is stowed away, and hard wired into the electric and plumbing systems. This ...

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A careful cost analysis revealed that it was a complex decision to select between the two software options. Both options had a shared cost of 14,500 based on the fact that the current infrastructure was not opt o part, and would require replacement in order to support the appropriate function of the new system. Bearing in mind, however that this was a shared cost, regardless of the model selected, it was not included in the mathematical cost analysis for the two options for the project. The total cost of the in house option, when all factors were equally ...

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 ...

Individual & Group Takeaways

Individual Takeaways Individually, I have come to understand design process is a multi-phased one. In order to better design a functional application (and, for that matter, any product or service), one needs to better understand, above anything else, customers for whom an application, product or service is designed. This first step is performed by different means including, for example, market research, field tests or surveys. For our current purposes (and because of our limited scope and resources), my workgroup and I performed both non-participating and participating customer observation activities. By non-participating observation activity is meant watching up close customer ...

Audacity

Audacity is a single multiple track tool for editing and recording sound. It allows users to manipulate with the soundtracks, change arrangement or fix issues like noise. The user interface of Audacity as shown in Figure 1 is simple; it provides buttons on top like a video recorder. One can also open an existing file into Audacity for listening or making some changes. The recorded sound is shown in a waveform that makes editing very simple and graphical. It also consists tools for clipping portions of the sound and a special tool for volume adjustments. Audacity is easy to ...

Color is an essential element of visual language that people use in cognitive processes even before they are aware of the same. Most of the computer users with no visual impairment depend on visual effects to perceive the changes in the computer screen. Color plays a key role in every stage of vision. It is hence paramount for developers to choose the colors used in any application based on the information they what convey and to whom the information should be relayed. People’s perception to color is subjective; different color components have a different meaning to different people. ...

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is used by designers for the presentation of documents written in the markup language like HTML, XML, and XHTML. Before the inception of CSS, designers had a difficult time in organizing web contents that would appeal to users ("Speaking in Styles: Fundamentals of CSS for Web Designers", 2010). With the use of CSS, web developers can choose how and where contents are displayed on the website. It has given web designers the capabilities to manage visual style and user interfaces of web pages. The layouts, color combinations, spacing among other design elements have an impact ...

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Material Procedure Results7 Discussion7 Appendix..9 Abstract The following lab reports gives an account of experiementation with the casting of two different types of impression, using plaster of paris. Keywords: footwear, tire, impressions, Plaster of Paris, casting Lab Four: Casting Footwear and Tire Impressions In the experiment conducted we took a casting from the track made by our footwear, as well as tire impressions, in ordeto determine which left more detail, or allowed for the simpler casting. For this experiment we used plaster of paris in order to create the needed casts, understanding ...

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft is an American multinational company that is based in Washington DC. The company is a world leader in the technology industry and is well known for its software which includes the Microsoft Windows OS line that is run on most computers sold worldwide. The company also makes other software such as the Microsoft Office Suite that has the most applications in offices and computers all over the globe. The company also delves in making personal hand-held devices and X-box gaming consoles. Microsoft is the largest software developer regarding revenue and market share in the tech world. Microsoft has ...

OneTab is a free browser add-on that is currently available for Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome browser. With OneTab, a user can convert all their currently opened tabs into a list that you can save for later, organize as sort of bookmark list, or share with others. According to OneTab, an extra benefit of its use is that it reduces the amount of memory your computer has to use in constantly updating opened tabs, many of which you may no longer be using (OneTab, n.d.). Naturally, for the computer user that likes to keep many tabs open ...

I. Introduction The purpose of this report is to review and analyze the usability of the social media application Snapchat. Snapchat is “image messaging application software” that provides social media functionality for smartphones and other mobile computing devices such as tablet compute (Speigel, 2012). As a social media app, Snapchat’s audience is anyone that enjoys, uses, or interested in social media. Accordingly, the Snapchat’s audience includes individuals, groups, organizations, and companies. However, unlike more traditional social media, Snapchat’s main attribute is, as mentioned, a reliance on image messaging rather than text messaging. Image messaging is a ...

Introduction

A removal of the adverse practices of child labor forms the central goal of the International Labor Organization (ILO). There are more than one challenging illustrations pertaining to the poorest methods of child labor, which are elaborated in different economic studies. A research conducted by a group of scholars reveals that the assessment of the worst procedure is about child labor . The notion is found to be specifically significant due to the central objective of ILO to eliminate the adverse practices of child labor. The International Labor Organization in the year 1999 showed the initials on convention C182. The ...

Public Relations has undergone a sea change following the rapid advance in internet technologies and the advent of social media applications. It has now become the art of not just providing information but truly creating interactive relationships with the public. A PR professional today must embrace the Web in order to reach the people they want to reach. In a way social media has put the public back into Public Relations . Twitter, the microblogging tool, is fast becoming the choice of most companies to provide real time engagement with their customers. Possibly the best example is Starbucks (https://twitter.com/Starbucks) which ...

Introduction

Project management applies techniques, knowledge, skills and expertise as well as experience to a strategic activity in an organization as shown by Bolles and Hubbard (2007). Notably, a project is a unique venture in an organization undertaken to meet its goals such as new products, venturing into new markets or cutting the product costs. Expected, in the new and unique projects, the experience is insufficient or lacking for a disciplined implementation. In other cases, the project takes up a lot of resources and staff due to its size. As such, to meet the scope and requirement while meeting the ...

Internet on Children

Abstract The Internet continues to raise controversy in recent years about existing and potentials harms and (more shyly, benefits), particularly by parents and pediatricians. The arguments are, apparently, based on concern for children's mental and physical health amid warnings of dire consequences for extensive hours spent on social media and gaming platforms. Assuming a scientific mantle, pediatricians emphasize harmful effects of Internet for children, only exacerbating parental concern. This paper argues, in contrast, for practical and confirmed benefits of Internet use for cognitive and social skills. By engaging children in meaningful learning and gaming activities, parents and educators do ...

An operating system in a computer language is system software that takes control of the computer hardware and manages the computer software resources. It more of provides a platform of operation for the computer programs. The operating software is often a key requirement and component of system software in a general computer system. Actually, the programs in a computer cannot function without an operating system. It is the key feature of a computer system which enables the computer hardware to perform various tasks fed into the system. The operating system allows a computer user to communicate with the machine ...