hackers looking for easy information. Today’s modern smartphone can do anything from controlling your home computer to handling your online banking to watching TV to making video calls. With all the features included in them‚ they are very easy to stockpile important (and sometimes sensitive) information about the user. Since smartphones are essentially tiny computers‚ they suffer the same vulnerabilities of PC’s‚ including viruses‚ malicious applications‚ and hacking. If there is the tiniest flaw in
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Seismic Vulnerability Assessment 1. Background Earthquakes and other natural hazards can create disasters of uncontrollable magnitudes when they hit large metropolitan areas. Earthquake risk assessment is used to quantify potential social and economic losses from earthquakes. Risk assessment is an integral part of disaster mitigation. It provides the critical information about on the characteristics of potential disasters in a region and allows planners to identify
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be changed in such a way that man will forget he is human?” (Fromm 2-3). In other words‚ could man be forced to surrender all human qualities under certain oppressive means? According to Orwell‚ the answer is yes. In George Orwell’s 1984‚ the vulnerability of humanity is exposed through his depictions of betrayal‚ contradictory elements‚ and the denial of reality. Despite the faith that the characters of 1984 put in their courage‚ this confidence is proven false as numerous betrayals occur in the
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Single Most Important Cybersecurity Vulnerability Facing IT Managers Today CSSEC610 Professor Chun-I P Chen March 31‚ 2013 Table of Contents Cyber security must be an aggressive and evolving practice. Not only is it important to put security in place for current technology that can access electronic information‚ but also to look forward to future trends and strategies. Methods must also be developed that will continuously protect information regardless of growth and technological
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1. Introduction Vulnerability simply means the susceptibility of social groups to potential losses from natural hazards. It is the characteristics of individuals‚ households or communities and their condition that influence their capacity to cope with‚ resist and recover from the impact of a natural hazard (Blaikie et al.‚ 1994; Kelly and Adger‚ 2000; Cardona‚ 2003). Hazards such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ landslides‚ hurricanes‚ droughts etc are the natural phenomena. It becomes disaster when it affects
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CONSTRUCTION PC-BASED AUTOMATIC TIME MANAGER ADEEB RAZA M any articles have been published in EFY for control ling devices through a PC’s parallel port or line printer (LPT) port. Here is another project for controlling a school bell or a scheduled shift-timing alarm of a factory automatically. The load connected to the output of the project can be an electric bell or a hooter. The timing can be programmed for every day schedule as per individual requirement. A Windows-based program developed
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Vulnerability terrifies me. Throughout my life I have always felt the need to be strong and emotionally stable no matter what the situation is. What I had hoped would be the best Christmas turned out to be one the worst one yet. Less than a week before Christmas in 2007 my father died in a car accident. I hadn’t seen my dad in months because we lived in different cities and two weeks before Christmas break when I finally was going to go visit him I had received a letter in the mail from him. I
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Vulnerability of the Mentally Ill Eva Morris American Sentinel University Vulnerability of the Mentally Ill Evaluation and treatment of the mentally ill population has developed from confinement of the mad during colonial times‚ into the biomedical balancing of neurological impairment seen in these modern times. There were eras of mental health reform‚ medicalization‚ and deinstitutionalization sandwiched in between (Nies & McEwen‚ 2011). Regardless of the stage of understanding and development
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main techniques to express the complicated feelings of vulnerability and relating to the reader that: “forcing down negative emotions at the thought that someone might see and know that I am not the strong person I show myself to be.” This specific situation always happens to everyone and using the supposed thoughts of others to prevent them to see that you are weak and vulnerable to the world. Hiding behind the supposed shield of vulnerability causes more harm than good in many cases. The use of repetition
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Listen to Villagers on Climate Change Vulnerability Reduction Assessment (VRA) November 2010 Vulnerability Reduction Assessment Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ACRONYMS 2. INTRODUCTION 3. VRA OBJECTIVES & METHODOLOGY 3.1 Objective 3.2 Method 3.3 Tools 3.4 Scoring 3.5 Reflection 3.6 Analysis 3.7 Credibility 2 4 6 8 8 8 10 11 11 12 12 4. VRA FINDINGS IN TEUK KRAHOM COMMUNE 4.1 Background 4.2 Trend Analysis and Types of Climatic Hazards 4.3 Climate Change Risks in Teuk Krahom 4.4 VRA
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