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  • Relation Databases Are the Standard of the Day

    Relation Databases Are the Standard of the Day

    But for implementing a relational database from one of the industry standard companies like Oracle or Microsoft, it becomes a costly affair. Thus to eradicate this problem, there are many companies which offer free RDBMS packages. Some of these packages are MySQL and PostgreSQL These packages provide a very solid relational database system with almost the same set of features as the big ones but the main difference comes in performance and scalability. Any free

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    Essay Length: 949 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2008 By: Mike
  • Standard Credit-Card Processing Software

    Standard Credit-Card Processing Software

    MANY OF MY FRIENDS and acquaintances are still reluctant to use their credit-card numbers on the Internet, even to buy from well-known merchants over secure connections, and even when their credit-card issuers offer full protection against fraudulent charges. This side of the Internet fraud problem has received much more attention than the other side: that Internet merchants have no really effective way to protect themselves against credit-card fraud. Standard credit-card processing software will give the

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    Essay Length: 742 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: Vika
  • Cultures' Standard of Beauty

    Cultures' Standard of Beauty

    People are damaging and killing themselves to fit into societies definition of beautiful. Currently we live in a society that is composed of many cultures. These cultures can influence what ones day to day worries are; one of them is being part of a society’s definition of beauty. Some of these cultures are American, European, and Hispanic to name a few. These cultures have influence that way people live, act, and think. Often people

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    Essay Length: 1,144 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Vika
  • Deviant Is More Than a Label

    Deviant Is More Than a Label

    Whatever the term deviance creates , in general it is popularly assumed that 'deviants' are individuals who are somehow less capable, less socially responsible, less adjusted, and consequently less useful to society than their more fortunate, upright and 'normal' fellows ( Social Deviance in Australia, p 4). In the case of Aboriginal drinking, alcohol is the main source of criminalisation and incarceration. This public labelling gives the individual an entirely new status- one which tends

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    Essay Length: 5,018 Words / 21 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • Gold - the Standard and the Investment

    Gold - the Standard and the Investment

    Introduction Gold has served as medium of exchange and a store of value since the days of the pharaohs, dating back nearly 5000 years. Gold coins were used by the Greeks and the Romans; this tradition passed on to the mercantile era into the nineteenth century where the great increase in trade led to a need for a formalized system of settling international trade balances. Thus, the “Gold Standard” was born. Since the end of

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    Essay Length: 449 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Medicare Standards

    Medicare Standards

    omply with all Federal, State and Local regulations pertaining to the operation of our business, including licensing, accreditation, etc. We have certified in our application for billing privileges that we meet and will continue to meet the following standards. Quality will: 1. Operates its business and furnishes Medicare-covered items in compliance with all applicable Federal and State licensure and regulatory requirements; 2. Has not made, or caused to be made, any false statement or misrepresentation

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    Essay Length: 1,131 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Computer Standards

    Computer Standards

    When people think of a product or service being “standard”, several adjectives may come to mind. The product or service must be: uniform, consistent, unchanging, and going to remain the same for a very long time, if not indefinitely. The technical definition states, “An acknowledged measure of comparison for quantitative or qualitative value.” People have grown to expect things in their daily life to be standard. Amazingly enough, people are accommodated more than they think.

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    Essay Length: 1,188 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Victor
  • The Double Standard

    The Double Standard

    Today, music is a form of entertainment that is a dominant part of American culture. It is a universal language that can be presented in a wide array of tongues and genres. Hip hop, Pop and R & B are some common genres which can be portrayed through lyrical skills along with the unique and creative short stories of videos. Music has had an influence on the way we dress, what we buy and

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    Essay Length: 1,839 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Iso - International Organization for Standardization

    Iso - International Organization for Standardization

    TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 INTRODUCTION 4 WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ISO? 5 WHY HAVE IT? 7 WHO HAS IT? 8 WHO WANTS IT? WHY? 9 REGISTRATION PROCESS? 10 WHO RUNS IT? 12 WHO IMPLEMENTS IT? 13 WHO MAINTAINS IT? 14 WHAT ARE THE RISKS OF NOT HAVING IT? 15 AUDITING PROCESS? 16 Internal Audit 16 External Audit 17 INTERVIEW WITH JOYCE IRVING 18 INTERVIEW WITH BILL JEFFREY

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    Essay Length: 1,894 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Janna
  • Does Standardized Testing Hurt Students

    Does Standardized Testing Hurt Students

    “A hopeful America is one in which not one child is left behind.” This quote from President George W. Bush at a recent news conference represents the current philosophy of our government on education. In 2001 President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The new law is an updated version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) which was signed into law in 1965. Since then standardized testing has been a

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    Essay Length: 1,980 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The New Accounting Standards Implementation in Australia

    The New Accounting Standards Implementation in Australia

    This paper reviews about Implementation of IFRS as Australia decided to adopt it in 2005. Besides its advantages, the adoption also generates several costs. In the short term, business and accounting practices suffered in several areas. Meanwhile, in the long terms it could be a large number of advantages that can not be measured by early year sacrifice. Convergence of business practices, government, and accounting profession functions will make transition progress easier to handle. Bibliography

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    Essay Length: 327 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ethical Standards

    Ethical Standards

    Have you ever heard of Halliburton? Halliburton is a company well known for their breakthrough technologies and monumental constructing infrastructure projects for certain military operations. Halliburton have been leaders in the energy, engineering and construction industries. Halliburton grew from the risk-taking entrepreneurialism of Erle P. Halliburton, who established the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company in Oklahoma in 1919. Simultaneously, the Brown brothers, George and Herman, partnered with their brother-in-law, Dan Root, to found Brown

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    Essay Length: 437 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Theries We Use to Help Us Understand Standard Setting in National Arenas Don’t Work So Well at the International Level Where the International Accounting Starndards Board Is Taking a Lead Role.We Will Have to Modify Them or Expand Our Theoretical Re

    The Theries We Use to Help Us Understand Standard Setting in National Arenas Don’t Work So Well at the International Level Where the International Accounting Starndards Board Is Taking a Lead Role.We Will Have to Modify Them or Expand Our Theoretical Re

    Abstract This paper is devoted to investigate the recent development of Australian accounting standards-setting in the light of theories of economics and sociology particularly in respect of the events and controversies around convergence of international accounting standards. The purpose of this paper is to examine the strength and weakness of different theories in the analysis of standard-setting process and more importantly, seek to compare standard setting process and major players involved in national and international

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    Essay Length: 3,046 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Yan
  • Standardized Testing

    Standardized Testing

    Ever since the beginning of school, standardized tests have always been a very important part of one’s future. Students of all ages take these tests and what they do on them helps teachers and parents decide where the students should be placed. For example, a student could be in an honors class or a “special” reading or math class based on their performance. Many students benefit from these tests and are placed in a high

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    Essay Length: 1,050 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Neo Nazism Deviant Subculter

    Neo Nazism Deviant Subculter

    One Segment of sociology focuses on sub-cultures, specifically; deviant subcultures. The White Supremacist and Neo-Nazi movements in America are a prime example of a deviant subculture. White Supremacy is defined as a racist ideology which holds that the white race is superior to other races (wiki). Further, Neo-Nazism is used to refer to any social or political movement seeking to revive Nazism or a form of fascism, which postdates the Second World War. There are

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    Essay Length: 1,434 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • Accounting Standards

    Accounting Standards

    The Federal Government, State and Local Governments (SLG), and Not-for-profit organizations (NFP) all have unique objectives and assets under their control. As a result it may not be feasible to develop a single set of accounting standards that accurately represents all of their financial activity in a manner that is useful to concerned parties. To resolve these discrepancies three separate standard setting bodies have been tasked with developing Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for these

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    Essay Length: 1,374 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Bred
  • Standardized Testing

    Standardized Testing

    Standardized Testing Robert L. White Advanced Writing Bill Bohnert February 2, 2006 In years past thousands of grade school students have been drug throughout the school systems of the United States without a single thought to whether they acquired the knowledge necessary to be successful in the working world or college. Since the signing of No Child Left Behind Act by President George W. Bush, many believe standardized or “high stakes” testing places advantages

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    Essay Length: 1,567 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Charles Krauthammer Argues for Torture - the Weekly Standard

    Charles Krauthammer Argues for Torture - the Weekly Standard

    Torture Charles Krauthammer argues for Torture in his essay in the Weekly Standard. Krauthammer is writing against McCain’s proposal for banning all forms of “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of any prisoner by any agent of the United States.” According to Krauthammer torture should be legalized because it is sometimes necessary to do evil to produce something good. Krauthammer assumes that the law must include provisions for every reasonable actions such that a reasonable person

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    Essay Length: 1,073 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Jon
  • Standardized Testing in the Us: Why It Does Not Work

    Standardized Testing in the Us: Why It Does Not Work

    In the United States, standardized testing is used to measure how knowledgeable or unknowledgeable a person is in a particular subject. According to the Council of Chief State School Officers website, standardized tests are defined as “a testing instrument that is administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard manner. It may be either norm-referenced or criterion-referenced” (Council of Chief State School Officers). I believe that this method of testing is not an accurate way of

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    Essay Length: 1,234 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Rfid Standards and Regulation

    Rfid Standards and Regulation

    While the potential benefits of RFID technology are clear and abundant, there is a definite need to regulate the development and implementation of the RFID technology. Not only must standards of regulation and operation be developed, but RFID technology raises privacy and security issues because of the passive and open nature of the technology. In order for the RFID tag industry to be successful in implementation there needs to be uniform standards and regulation so

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    Essay Length: 1,433 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Standard Costing Example

    Standard Costing Example

    Standard Costing Example SETTING STANDARD COSTS A standard can be defined as a benchmark or "norm" for measuring performance. The broadest application of the standard cost idea is found in manufacturing firms. Such firms often develop standards in detail for the materials, labour, and overhead cost of each separate product. IDEAL VS. PRACTICAL STANDARDS Ideal standards allow for no machine break-downs or work interruptions, and can be attained only by working at peak effort 100

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    Essay Length: 870 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Mike
  • Interview’s Standard Questions & Answers

    Interview’s Standard Questions & Answers

    Standard Questions 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. What did you most enjoy about your last job? 3. How would your colleagues or supervisor describe you? 4. What can you offer us that other people cannot? 5. What about this job attracts you? What is unattractive? 6. How long do you see yourself with us? 7. How would you describe an ideal working environment? Standard interview questions might not seem difficult, but your answer to

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    Essay Length: 2,347 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • How Would International Financial Reporting Standards Affect the Quality of Canadian Accounting Information?

    How Would International Financial Reporting Standards Affect the Quality of Canadian Accounting Information?

    How would International Financial Reporting Standards affect the quality of Canadian accounting information? LIMING TONG INTRODUCTION Globalization has a great impact on today’s economy. The differences of accounting regulations and practices in various countries have become a noteworthy obstacle to globalization and economic development. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) mitigates global business barriers. In order to adapt to the increasingly global business environment, public companies in Canada will move to IFRS by 2011. This movement

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    Essay Length: 1,849 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Standard English Vs. the World

    Standard English Vs. the World

    Standard English Vs. The World It seems today that Standard English is taking over the world. Standard English is the main language many countries call their national language. Even foreign countries are starting to use the English language more often. The University even offers English Second Language classes so that foreigners can learn English. Everyone in today’s society as we know, speak English. It’s almost universal. The way I see it, is there are 2

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    Essay Length: 1,348 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: regina
  • Standardized Tests

    Standardized Tests

    Standardized Tests Many approaches are made to test the intelligence of today’s youth, and many are being created for tomorrow’s youth. There are a number of ways in which a person’s knowledge can be measured, but one method that is very popular throughout the United States is for students to take standardized tests. Standardized tests are tests are designed to give a common measure of students’ performance. Usually created by commercial test publishers, the

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    Essay Length: 905 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Andrew

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