that people might someday spend more than half their day on a website such as Facebook was unthinkable. These social networks sites‚ along with hundreds more‚ were just a spark in designers’ mind. Social networking has made many effects upon society. With almost anyone having access to a computer‚ it has become easier to connect virtually with one another. The constant use of this kind of technology has proven to be beneficial but also harmful to us as a whole and to our humanity. When we contact
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What Is the Problem Of an Ageing Population? Christine Loh August 2005 What is the ‘Problem’ of an Ageing Population? Christine Loh August 2005 Civic Exchange Civic Exchange is a non-profit organisation that helps to improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. Room 701‚ Hoseinee House‚ 69 Wyndham Street‚ Central‚ Hong Kong Tel: (+852) 2893 0213 Fax: (+852) 3105 9713 URL: www.civic-exchange.org Disclaimer The views expressed in this report are those
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Peer-to-Peer Networks for Content Sharing Choon Hoong Ding‚ Sarana Nutanong‚ and Rajkumar Buyya Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory‚ Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering‚ The University of Melbourne‚ Australia (chd‚ sarana‚ raj)@cs.mu.oz.au ABSTRACT Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are popularly used as “file-swapping” networks to support distributed content sharing. A number of P2P networks for file sharing have been developed and deployed. Napster‚ Gnutella
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The People’s party was elected because Spain got in economic crisis and old government lost all credibility‚ and people wanted to see some changes in economics‚ because Spain debt is big and they are on the edge of bankruptcy. Another problem for Spain is that people in Basque Country wants to make their own country‚ in last couple decades that made a huge problems for Spain. Recently‚ people from Catalonia proposed the same idea of their own country. Economical Overview – before the crisis Spanish
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surprise that this country is the United States of America. From the snow covered plains of Antarctica to the outback of Australia‚ America is regarded as the ‘Beacon of success.’ America’s 16.3 trillion dollar economic debt and high unemployment rate has caused many of its citizens to put the blame on the influx of immigrants in search of their American dream. The outcry that immigrants are siphoning America’s economy and taking over jobs‚ led author Shayan Zadeh to write his article‚ “Bring on More Immigrant
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95% of sales are shared between 2 companies- PepsiCo and Coca-Cola. Soft-drink is a product with very little differentiation and high degree of impulse purchases. Given these two facts‚ Place and Promotion assume paramount importance in the marketing of soft-drinks. Through this report we intend to discuss the approach for addressing a particular managerial decision problem of 7UP. It is with this intention we have decided to do the following study. PART A: To prepare a write-up on the designated
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Hell Date People in life will go through bad things. Sometimes it can be a bad job‚ bad relationship‚ or even a bad breakup. I am here to talk about a bad date. I know that later on in life I will probably go through other dates‚ but this happen to be the worst date I have ever had. The things that consider this a bad date for me are when my boyfriend at the time had me pay for everything‚ put me to sleep during the date‚ and vomited on me at the end of the night. I am not the person who thinks
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communications. The problem is that in a multicultural work environment there is different communications styles‚ traditions‚ rules‚ etc. Large companies such as Google Co‚ the one that we are going to be studying have to organize and manage work teams around the globe. This represents a big challenge for the company. In this research paper we are going to analyze how a multicultural workforce can bring changes to Google Co. First‚ we will provide a history background on the company and then we will
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two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge. Knowledge can be gained in a variety of ways. Shared knowledge is the work and product of more than one individual. It consists of contributions from many people to a body of knowledge that already exists. This type of knowledge tends to change in ways and evolve over time. Personal knowledge on the other hand is based on an individual’s experience; this knowledge is essentially gained through personal
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Climate Change With the development of the world‚ the environmental problems that include pollutions and wastes are increasing and more serious. A well-known example is that climate change which has a huge threaten to the world becomes one of the most important global issues of the 21st century. Another example is that the air pollution is more and more serious‚ which strongly affects people’ health. Besides of that the environmental problems are harm to the health of people; the problems will prevent
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