Giorgia Laird‚ Holly Adams‚ Prao Vikitsreth‚ Ella Chambers‚ EmmaJane Littler Threats to Antarctica Antarctica has a brutal climate; it is the coldest‚ windiest‚ most deserted place on earth. Due to the continent’s inhospitality‚ only select species can live there‚ including phytoplankton‚ krill and squid at the bottom of the food web‚ and killer whales‚ blue whales and seals at the top‚ and it is also home to penguins‚ and several types of fish. However this harsh environment is also considered
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Given the decision to pursue an initial public offering‚ on what exchange should Baidu list? What factors contribute to that decision? What are the advantages and disadvantages of listing on the NASDAQ? Baidu listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market to pursue an IPO. 1. Since Baidu was technically a wholly foreign-owned company (registered in the Cayman Islands)‚ the company was ineligible for listing on either the Shanghai or Shenzhen exchanges. As such‚ the key listing alternatives for Baidu were the
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Delusion of a postracial area We might be aware of some stereotypes related to our social identity but what we don’t know much about is stereotype threat. Stereotype threat has been shown to reduce the performance of successful people belonging to a certain negatively stereotyped group. Claude Steele‚ the author of Whistling Vivaldi‚ a social psychologist and Columbia University provost‚ writes about the work he and his colleagues have done on this phenomenon‚ the tendency to expect‚
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Name: Maricar A. Magale Section & Schedule: A3; MTh 10:30am-12pm Threats of Biodiversity “The loss of biological diversity is second only to nuclear warfare in its threat to human and other life on this planet.” - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources‚ including inter alia [among other things]‚ terrestrial‚ marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are a part; this includes diversity
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Cyber Threats Roger Larew SEC 402 Informational Warfare February 16‚ 2011 Before we get into the major cyber terrorism threats that we all have to deal with I wanted to first define what cyber terrorism is. According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation‚ cyber terrorism is any premeditated‚ politically motivated attack against information‚ computer systems‚ computer programs‚ and data which results in violence against non-combatant targets by sub-national groups or clandestine agents
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Practical Identification of SQL Injection Vulnerabilities Chad Dougherty Background and Motivation The class of vulnerabilities known as SQL injection continues to present an extremely high risk in the current network threat landscape. In 2011‚ SQL injection was ranked first on the MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors list.1 Exploitation of these vulnerabilities has been implicated in many recent high-profile intrusions. Although there is an abundance
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software used to logically attacking computers is called malware. IT Security risk means that there might be unauthorized access to or theft of proprietary data. Common people often post their business email addresses on external websites. These can be picked up and used to hack into other corporate accounts or flood employee in-boxes with unwanted spam. Installing unlawful wireless access points also increases the risk that outside agents could hack into company servers. It also degrades the quality
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Contemporary Issues Environmental threats Overpopulation Every 20 minutes‚ the world adds another 3‚500 human lives but loses one or more entire species of animal or plant life - at least 27‚000 species per year. ZGP July 1999 World population growth peaked at about two percent per year in the early 1960s. Latest population figures indicate that the rate of growth has slowed to 1.33 percent annually‚ equivalent to 78 million people a year. UNFPA 1999 The highest world population growth
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Application Vulnerability Statistics 2013 Jan Tudor whitepapers@contextis.co.uk June 2013 Context Information Security Research. Response. Assurance www.contextis.com 1 / 37 White paper/ Web Application Vulnerability Statistics 2013 Contents Abstract Findings Summary Sector Analysis Overview by Year Average Vulnerabilities Analysis Advertising & Media Financial Services (Europe) Healthcare Insurance & Law Technology & Telecommunications UK Government Other Sectors Vulnerability Category
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Name of the village: …………. Date of assessment: …………. VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT FORMAT HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: 1) When was the previous occurrence recorded in this area? a) 1st Occurrence: Year …………………………… Month …………………………… Date b) 2nd Occurrence: Year …………………………… Month …………………………… Date c) 3rd Occurrence: Year …………………………… Month …………………………… Date STUDY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC‚ CULTURAL‚ POLITICAL BACKGROUND OF THE AREA 2) What is the basis of family economy of this area? a) Business
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