Environmental and Resource Economics 29: 137–157‚ 2004. © 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 137 The Relationship between the Environmental and Financial Performance of Public Utilities GREG FILBECK1 and RAYMOND F. GORMAN2‚∗ 1 Adjunct Professor of Finance‚ University of Wisconsin – La Crosse; Senior Vice-President‚ Schweser Study Program‚ 1905 Palace Street‚ LaCrosse‚ WI 54603‚ USA; 2 Miami University‚ School of Business Administration‚ Oxford‚ OH 45056‚ USA;
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The Rise of Cloud Computing in Telecommunication Industry Introduction “There was a time when every household‚ town‚ farm or village had its own water well. Today‚ shared public utilities give us access to clean water by simply turning on the tap; cloud computing works in a similar fashion.” That was the analogy used by Vivek Kundra‚ Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States Government to depict the use of cloud computing in today’s society. As the corporate world has embarked
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Cloud Computing and its opportunities in Rural India Deepak Mitra Department of Computer Applications(MCA) Gaya College Gaya‚ Gaya-823001 Ph: +91-09472663820 Email-id : d_mitra123@yahoo.com What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is a new computing technology refers to the on-demand provision of computational resources via a computer network‚ rather than from a local computer. Users or clients can submit a task to the service provider‚ without actually possessing the software or
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Individual Research Paper: The Ethical Implications of Cloud Computing on Society MGMT 505 Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Policy Spring 2013 Niki A. den Nieuwenboer Cloud Computing is a popular term for “enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction” (Brian‚ 2012). The concept of Cloud Computing was first developed in the 1960’s by scientists who
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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING: DESIGN‚ BUILD AND BENCHMARK A LINUX CLUSTER by GOH YOKE LOONG KEM 050024 Semester 1 Session 2008/09 Final year research project report submitted to the Faculty of Engineering University of Malaya in partial fulfillment of the requirement to be Bachelor’s degree of Engineering DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ENGINEERING FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA October 2008 ABSTRACT Nowadays almost every industry needs fast processing power especially in engineering field
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLOUD COMPUTING ON TEACHING AND LEARNING ABSTRACT According to the learners cloud blog‚ an article posted on 4th February 2013‚ Technology has continuously contributed effectively on the way knowledge is impacted to learners. In the 1950s learning theorists concluded that repeated drills and the repetition of content-supported learning and more specifically recall. This led to the introduction of listening stations in the classroom where students were able to use headphones
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Special Publication 800-146 DRAFT Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Lee Badger Tim Grance Robert Patt-Corner Jeff Voas NIST Special Publication 800-146 DRAFT Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Lee Badger Tim Grance Robert Patt-Corner Jeff Voas C O M P U T E R S E C U R I T Y Computer Security Division Information Technology
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Haley Battista‚ John Conroy‚ Katie Early‚ John MacGovern Professor Holder-Webb AC 306 February 5‚ 2013 Big Bear Power public utility company is leasing a combustion turbine from Goliath Co. Big Bear signed a 10-year noncancelable lease on December 15‚ 2010. The lease begins on January 1‚ 2011. There are three provisions to this lease that need to be analyzed to tell if they should be included in the minimum lease payments. For provision one‚ Big Bear pays $500‚000 to an external legal counsel
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PRIVATE VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE MINNU‚ A ABSTRACT Cloud computing describes a new supplement‚ consumption and delivery model of IT services based on Internet and it typically evolves over the Internet provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources. Cloud Computing places organization ’s sensitive data in control to third party which introduces a significant level of risk on the privacy and security of sensitive data of organization. The main responsibility of Private Virtual
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INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS Cloud Computing for Enterprise Resource Planning Rachel Suelflow 12/8/2011 Contents Definitions............................................................................................................................................... 1 Cloud Computing ................................................................................................................................. 1 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) ...........................
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