What makes some people help and others stand by? A lot of social psychological research focuses on anti-social behaviour. This essay will look at the other side of the coin and focus on pro-social behaviour‚ specifically helping behaviour and altruism. It will look at what causes people to help or not help and the phenomenon of altruism‚ the act of helping other for no discernable reward. The two psychologists who have researched this area most are Bibb Latané and John Darley. They came together
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1. Data mart definition A data mart is the access layer of the data warehouse environment that is used to get data out to the users. The data mart is a subset of the data warehouse that is usually oriented to a specific business line or team. Data marts are small slices of the data warehouse. Whereas data warehouses have an enterprise-wide depth‚ the information in data marts pertains to a single department. In some deployments‚ each department or business unit is considered the owner of its data
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The Effects of Smoking on the Human Body By Randi McCreary‚ eHow Contributor According to SmokingStatistics.org‚ more than 500‚000 deaths related to cigarette smoking have occurred in the past decade. It is clear that smoking is a dangerous habit to begin. For this reason‚ it is important to understand all of the many effects that smoking can cause. 1. Nicotine o People who smoke cigarettes have developed a craving for‚ and often an addiction to‚ nicotine. Nicotine‚a natural ingredient of
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a carrier‚ and hence‚ the taxonomy of current steganographic techniques for image files has been presented. These techniques are analyzed and discussed not only in terms of their ability to hide information in image files but also according to how much information can be hidden‚ and the robustness to different image processing attacks. Keywords: Adaptive Steganography‚ Current Techniques‚ Image Files‚ Overview‚ Steganography‚ Taxonomy. 1. INTRODUCTION In this modern era‚ computers and the internet
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What were some of Apple’s biggest successes and failures? Describe why. Apple Successes Three of Apple’s biggest successes are the iPod‚ iTunes‚ and iPhone. Introduced in 2001 the iPod offered consumers and easy interface to house up to 1000 “on the go” songs. For Apple‚ the iPod offered a monopoly type product with high margins. The iTunes application also rolled out in 2001 and offered users and easy interface to search and download music and movies. In 2002‚ Apple released the Windows
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In the story‚ “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”‚ by Horace Miner he talks about the Nacirema tribe and describes the body rituals that their society does on a regular basis that they view as the norm in their society and culture. While reading about these strange and unusual rituals‚ one can’t help but think that what these people are doing is totally and completely ridiculous. Ethnocentrism comes over and judgment takes place‚ but in reality some could view our American culture as just and crazy
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Module 5 Data Security What is a computer security risk? A computer security risk is any event or action that could cause loss of or damage to computer hardware‚ software‚ data‚ information‚ or processing capability. Some breaches to computer security are accidental‚ others are planned intrusions. Some intruders do no damage; they merely access data‚ information or programs on the computer before logging off. Other intruders indicate some evidence of their presence either by leaving a
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20705 increase in insulin internalization in rat muscle cells (Evans and Bowman 1992) with a concomitant in crease in glucose and leucine uptake. Chromium chloride and chromium nicotinate had no effect. Chromium supplementation to diets of pigs has been shown to increase the percentage of muscle by 7% and longissimus dorsi muscle area by 18%‚ while reducing 10th rib fat 20% and serum cholesterol 19% (Page et al. 1993) when fed from 30 kg body weight until slaughter at 100 kg. Chromium response was
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A glimpse of Big Data Jan. 2013 What is big data? “Big data is not a precise term; rather it’s a characterization of the never ending accumulation of all kinds of data‚ most of it unstructured. It describes data sets that are growing exponentially and that are too large‚ too raw or too unstructured for analysis using relational database techniques. Whether terabytes or petabytes‚ the precise amount is less the issue than where the data ends up and how it is used.”------Cite from EMC’s report
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Environmental Studies For Undergraduate Courses subhamsahu CORE MODULE SYLLABUS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR UNDER GRADUATE COURSES OF ALL BRANCHES OF HIGHER EDUCATION Vision The importance of environmental science and environmental studies cannot be disputed. The need for sustainable development is a key to the future of mankind. Continuing problems of pollution‚ loss of forget‚ solid waste disposal‚ degradation of environment‚ issues like economic productivity and national security
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