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An Overview of the Kauffman Firm Survey: Results From 2010 Business Activities
Examines longitudinal data on new businesses' survival and performance since 2004 as well as new firms founded in 2010, including trends in slow or lost sales, predictability of business conditions, credit availability, and product or service innovation
Packet Resonance Strategy: A Spoof Attack Detection and Prevention Mechanism in Cloud Computing Environment
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a major threat to server availability. The attackers hide from view by impersonating their IP addresses as the legitimate users. This Spoofed IP helps the attacker to pass through the authentication phase and to launch the attack. Surviving spoof detection techniques could not resolve different styles of attacks. Packet Resonance Strategy (PRS) armed to detect various types of spoof attacks that destruct the server resources or data theft at Datacenter. PRS ensembles to any Cloud Service Provider (CSP) as they are exclusively responsible for any data leakage and sensitive information hack. PRS uses two-level detection scheme, allows the clients to access Datacenter only when they surpass initial authentication at both levels. PRS provides faster data transmission and time sensitiveness of cloud computing tasks to the authenticated clients. Experimental results proved that the proposed methodology is a better light-weight solution and deployable at server-end
The Agent Orange Veteran Payment Program
This thesis discusses how to enhance the public discussion of moral and political questions. Enhancing public âdeliberationâ is desirable since it provides citizens with influence, it enables coming to an understanding, and it ensures legitimacy. The concept of ethico-political judgment, with its two conditions, is elaborated on as an ideal that suggests how we should deliberate. In order to understand how we actually deliberate, an empirical inquiry into the public discourse on prenatal diagnosis and screening in the Netherlands and Sweden is conducted. On the basis of Kantâs ethics and his theory of the faculty of judgment, the two conditions for public deliberation are developed. These conditions are the giving of and asking for normative reasons as well as aiming at impartiality of judgment. Normative reasons are prescriptive, universal, and internal and these are related to Kantâs ethics. Impartiality is related to Kantâs âenlarged thoughtâ, to think from the standpoint of others, as well as Kantâs practical philosophy. We need to think from the standpoints of others in order to consider whether or not the principle of our action applies to all. Four thematic foci in the public discourse on prenatal diagnosis are investigated â the unborn life, attitudes toward the disabled, implications of new choices, and the limits of medicine. The conclusion is that â if we wish to enhance public deliberation on the basis of the two conditions of ethico-political judgment â we should deal with both interpretive differences over universal principles (such as respect for autonomy and human dignity) and varying representations of âthe otherâ (such as the fetus, disabled persons, mothers-to-be, and future parents).I denna avhandling diskuteras hur offentlig diskussion kring moraliska och politiska frĂ„gor kan intensifieras. Att intensifiera offentlig diskussion Ă€r önskvĂ€rt för att ge medborgare inflytande, för att frĂ€mja förstĂ„else och för att skapa legitimitet. Begreppet etisk-politisk bedömning utvecklas som ett ideal för hur vi bör diskutera. För att undersöka hur vi faktiskt diskuterar görs en empirisk undersökning av det offentliga samtalet om fosterdiagnostik i NederlĂ€nderna och Sverige. Med utgĂ„ngspunkt i Kants etik och hans teori om omdömesförmĂ„gan utvecklas tvĂ„ villkor för offentlig diskussion. Dessa villkor Ă€r att ge och efterfrĂ„ga normativa skĂ€l och att strĂ€va efter opartiskhet av omdömesförmĂ„gan. Normativa skĂ€l Ă€r preskriptiva, universella och interna. Begreppet utvecklas utifrĂ„n Kants etik. Opartiskhet baseras pĂ„ Kants âutvidgade tĂ€nkandeâ: att tĂ€nka utifrĂ„n andras perspektiv. Denna idĂ© relateras till Kants praktiska filosofi. Det âutvidgade tĂ€nkandetâ innebĂ€r att vi tar stĂ€llning till om principen som vi vĂ€ljer för en handling gĂ€ller alla. Fyra teman i det offentliga samtalet om fosterdiagnostik analyseras â det ofödda livet, attityder gentemot handikappade, implikationer av nya val och den medicinska praktikens grĂ€nser. Slutsatsen Ă€r att om vi önskar intensifiera offentlig diskussion med utgĂ„ngspunkt i de tvĂ„ villkor som utvecklas, bör vi ta itu med tolkningsskillnader nĂ€r det gĂ€ller universella principer (som respekt för autonomi och mĂ€nniskovĂ€rde) samt olika representationer av âden andraâ (som fostret, handikappade, gravida kvinnor och blivande förĂ€ldrar)
Exploratory study to explore the role of ICT in the process of knowledge management in an Indian business environment
In the 21st century and the emergence of a digital economy, knowledge and the knowledge base economy are rapidly growing. To effectively be able to understand the processes involved in the creating, managing and sharing of knowledge management in the business environment is critical to the success of an organization. This study builds on the previous research of the authors on the enablers of knowledge management by identifying the relationship between the enablers of knowledge management and the role played by information communication technologies (ICT) and ICT infrastructure in a business setting. This paper provides the findings of a survey collected from the four major Indian cities (Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Villupuram) regarding their views and opinions about the enablers of knowledge management in business setting. A total of 80 organizations participated in the study with 100 participants in each city. The results show that ICT and ICT infrastructure can play a critical role in the creating, managing and sharing of knowledge in an Indian business environment
Broken Bodies, Shattered Dreams: The Aftermath of a Life as a Korean Comfort Woman
The Pacific War in Asia is infamous for the sickening atrocities committed by the military forces of both the Allies and Japan. Proof of the carnage is undeniable and is often discussed in textbooks, history classes, and documentaries around the world. The forced recruitment of women to serve as sex slaves to the Japanese military is included on the long list of wartime tragedies, however it often remains on the periphery of discussions on wartime violence. The negligence is due in part to the half century of silence that followed the victimization of the women most often known as âianfu,â âwianbu,â âMilitary sexual slaves,â âJapanese war rape victims,â or the less provocative âcomfort women.â1 Yet the inattention can also be attributed to the Japanese governmentâs repeated denial of culpability, be it from shame or simple economic greed. Despite Japanâs desire to hush up the stories of the military sexual slavery, recent womenâs movements in Korea and the international community have spurred the outspokenness of the survivors. This paper will discuss the rationales used by the Japanese government for the establishment of the comfort system, its effects on womenâs lives, and their reasons for decades long silence. Also examined are the womenâs recent demands for justice and various governmental reactions in an effort to reveal the actions that necessitate emotional and mental healing, as well as prevention of future abuses against women
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