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The SARS Virus: Background information and data analysis Henry Brown‚ Rugby School Summer 2003 Introduction SARS is a virus. Generally‚ they are only visible through an electron microscope. Viruses are not generally considered a living organism. Instead they are parasitic. They remain dormant outside of the host body‚ and if one happens to get inside the body‚ it can spread rapidly. It relies on the host’s cells to replicate. A good example is the influenza virus‚ which infects the
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Feature article Knowledge management‚ librarians and information managers: fad or future? Brendan Loughridge Introduction This article considers some of the principles and practices commonly associated with ``knowledge management ’ ’ (KM) in so far as they seem to be of potential importance or relevance to library and information professionals. Competing claims and counterclaims about KM as expressed in a selection of recent professional and academic publications are reviewed‚ though a truly
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Information Systems in Business Functions | ….. | | | January 04 - 2011 | | Cebu Institute of Technology – University CCS 311 Management Information Systems G01 Reaction Paper #3 * RESEARCH ON THE TOPIC Accounting - The purpose of accounting is to track every financial transaction within a company‚ from dollar to multimillion dollar purchases‚ from salaries to benefits‚ to sales of every item. At the year’s end‚ the company cannot present a picture of its Financial
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importance of tech in business the last two decades have marked an enormous increase in the number of home computers. With it‚ computer owners have invariably taken to entrepreneurship in many varied fields. Thanks to the growth of technology‚ computers and the Internet‚ new methods have been developed for processing everyday business activities easily. Without the advent of technology‚ routine tasks would otherwise have taken and enormous amount of time and specialization. Undoubtedly‚ the computer
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THE RELEVANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS 1. How can information technology support a company’s business processes and decision-making‚ and give it a competitive advantage? One could imagine how inefficient and ineffective a business processes would be without the aid of current information technology. Processes will take time to provide the output needed from any type of business. Speed is the key to all the business processes of today. The need of a business to adapt to the
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Apple Inc. has long been a leader in the consumer electronics industry. Apple’s success has lead to fierce rivalries from competitors wanting a piece of the growing industry. Two of Apple’s most notable rivalries are with Samsung and Google. It is worth noting that for the majority of Apple’s existence‚ Microsoft had been seen as their biggest competitor. Although Microsoft is still a competitor‚ Samsung and Google’s successful entry into mobile consumer electronics has left Microsoft lagging behind
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HSC Assessment 1 Apple Research Business Report Business Studies class Executive Summary Product Differentiation Strategy Product differentiation aims to have an advantage over competitors by having outputs that are different to others in the market. They do this by making a unique product with leading edge technology. This can be seen with the Iphone and IPod range in Apple. Apple has constantly innovated its products to make it different from competition and better for the environment
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Samsung vs Apple Business Finance Summer Winters Randall Morris Table of Contents Title Page 1 Table of Contents 2 History of Samsung 3 Logo 4 Liquidity/ Current Ratio 5 Quick Ratio 6 Profitability Ratio/ Profit Margin Ratio 7 Gross Profit Margin Ratio 8 Return on Asset Ratio 9 Return on Equity Ratio 10 Asset Management Ratio/ Inventory Turnover 11 Fixed Asset Turnover Ratio 12 Days Sales Outstanding 13 Debt
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2.1 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 2.1.1 What is Information Retrieval? The construal of the term information retrieval can be very broad. Just getting a credit card out of your wallet so that you can indite in the card number is a form of information retrieval. However‚ as an academic field of study‚ information retrieval might be defined thus: Information retrieval (IR) is finding material (customarily documents) of an unstructured nature (conventionally text) that satiates an information need from within
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