research will illustrate how efforts have been made to improve child protection. The research will illustrate eras of child protection until today’s foster care regulations and benefits. Research also indicates that child maltreatment continues to be a social issue that needs addressed and improved. History of Child Protective Services Introduction This paper explores the history of child protection services. Child protection emerged in 1874 from the rescue of a beaten and neglected 9-year-old
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Introduction: Data breach has always been a sensitive topic‚ let alone when the data breach is related to banking. In the mean time‚ there’s a breach was found happened to the online banking system of the competitive bank of First Union Bank‚ and the hacker had stolen quantities of customers’ personal information and data. It has been an alarm for all the banks‚ it reminds the whole society to be alert of the damage caused by the data breach. The Chief Information Officer of the First Union Bank
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Stock Exchange forecasting with Data Mining and Text Mining (Marketing and Sales Analysis) Full names : Fahed Yoseph TITLE : Senior software and Database Consultatnt (Founder of Info Technology System) E-mail: Yoseph@info-technology.net Date of submission: Sep 15th of 2013 CONTENTS PAGE Chapter 1 1. ABSTRACT 2 2. INTRODUCTION 3 2.1 The research problem. 4 2.2 The objectives of the proposal. 4 2.3 The Stock Market movement. 5 2.4 Research question(s). 6 2. Background 3. Problem
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Data Mining Assignment 4 Shauna N. Hines Dr. Progress Mtshali Info Syst Decision-Making December 7‚ 2012 Benefits of Data Mining Data mining is defined as “a process that uses statistical‚ mathematical‚ artificial intelligence‚ and machine-learning techniques to extract and identify useful information and subsequent knowledge from large databases‚ including data warehouses” (Turban & Volonino‚ 2011). The information identified using data mining includes patterns indicating trends‚ correlations
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number of articles on “big data”. Examine the subject and discuss how it is relevant to companies like Tesco. Introduction to Big Data In 2012‚ the concept of ‘Big Data’ became widely debated issue as we now live in the information and Internet based era where everyday up to 2.5 Exabyte (=1 billion GB) of data were created‚ and the number is doubling every 40 months (Brynjolfsson & McAfee‚ 2012). According to a recent research from IBM (2012)‚ 90 percent of the data in the world has been
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Data mining is a concept that companies use to gain new customers or clients in an effort to make their business and profits grow. The ability to use data mining can result in the accrual of new customers by taking the new information and advertising to customers who are either not currently utilizing the business ’s product or also in winning additional customers that may be purchasing from the competitor. Generally‚ data are any “facts‚ numbers‚ or text that can be processed by a computer.” Today
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Environmental protection means people protect the natural resources and make rational use of resources consciously in order to prevent the pollution and damage to the environment; we have to make a comprehensive management on the polluted and destructed environment in order to create the environment which is suitable for human life and work. Environment protection is also the general term for various measures that people take to solve the real or potential environmental problems‚ coordinate the relationship
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Share repurchases and the protection of shareholders* KATHLEEN VAN DER LINDE** 1 Introduction From a creditor’s perspective there is not much difference between the payment of a dividend in respect of a share and a payment for the acquisition or repurchase of that share. However‚ from the point of view of the shareholder a dividend is a return on capital while a repurchase is a return of capital to the vendor shareholder. Share repurchases change the structure of the company’s share capital
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UNIX offers a file protection system that is straightforward and simple to use. However‚ many people are not aware of the value of this powerful mechanism. A secure environment is achieved not only by the operating system‚ but also through vigilant user and administrative practices. There are many schemes and mechanisms used in the UNIX operating system‚ as well as some simple tricks that are available to give the kind of file protection administrators want. For the purpose of this paper‚ a company
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240 - INTRODUCTION TO DATA PROCESSING/MANGEMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Objectives To give a thorough and up-to-date grounding in the realities of commercial applications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s). To Examine the roles of data‚ information and knowledge within modern business organisations‚ and the roles that information and communication technologies (ICT’s) play in supporting people and groups within organisations. To provide students with a thorough understanding
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